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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Black-seeded Brown Dutch Cabbage 

 Lettuce. 



Black-seeded Brown Dutch Cabbage Lettuce (Laitue Rousse 

 Hollandaise gr. n.}. Young plant of a dull green colour, slightly 

 tinged with light brown ; leaves short, roundish, or spathulate, 

 finely toothed towards the base, where they are of a reddish colour, 



as are also the veins. This variety 

 differs from the Brown Genoa 

 Cabbage Lettuce chiefly in having 

 no spots on the leaves, and the 

 plant altogether is not so brown. 

 In other respects the two kinds 

 are much alike in size and general 

 appearance. 



Dutch Cabbage Lettuce 

 (Black-seeded). Young plant of a 

 uniform dark green, leaves short, 

 rounded, flat, slightly toothed near 

 the base, the inner leaves crimped and sinuated. Head of full- 

 grown plant small, round, very close and hard, and surrounded by 

 entire, crimped, and slightly undulated leaves, which form a very 

 compact rosette. The plant is, at most, from 6 to 8 in. in diameter. 

 Its general appearance resembles that of the Large White Cabbage 

 Lettuce, with which, however, it cannot be confounded, if the 

 difference in the colour of the leaves and of the seed is taken 

 into consideration. Small-sized Lettuces, like this variety, are 

 often valuable to gardeners for growing amongst other vegetables. 



Cendrette du Havre Lettuce. A handsome summer Lettuce 

 of medium size, somewhat like the Trocadero Lettuce, but with the 

 leaves more crimped, and tinged with darker brown on the top. 



Fontenay Lettuce. A fine variety of Cabbage Lettuce, very 

 slow in running to seed, large and productive. It resembles the 

 Turkish Cabbage Lettuce, but is larger. It is very light coloured 

 in all its parts. 



Frankfort Lettuce. A handsome variety, resembling the 

 Black-seeded All the Year Round 

 Cabbage Lettuce, but not so broad, 

 and with a taller, egg-shaped head, 

 of a peculiar gold shade. 



Mortatella Cabbage Lettuce. 

 A very distinct variety, of Italian 

 origin. A peculiarity which belongs 

 almost exclusively to this Lettuce is 

 that the stem is long like that of many 

 round-headed Cabbages (especially those sown in autumn), in 

 consequence of which the large outer leaves, instead of forming 

 a rosette close to the ground, grow in tiers, the head forming at 

 some distance above the soil. These outer leaves are of a dark 



Black-seeded Dutch Cabbage 

 Lettuce ( natural size). 



