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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Black-seeded Bath Cos Lettuce 

 ( natural size). 



Black-seeded Bath Cos Lettuce. Young plant somewhat 

 paler than that of the Common or White-seeded Bath Cos, but 

 similar in other respects. The full-grown plant does not differ 



very materially from the pre- 

 ceding kind, except in the colour 

 of the seed ; however, there is a 

 very apparent disparity between 

 the two varieties in the habit of 

 the plants, and the manner in 

 which the leaves overlap one 

 another, those of the black - 

 seeded kind being shorter, 

 forming a rosette, which spreads 

 more broadly on the ground, and 

 being slower in standing erect to 

 form the head ; they are also 

 more toothed at the edges. The 

 two varieties are alike in produc- 

 tiveness, earliness, and quality. 

 Spotted, or Aleppo, Cos Lettuce (White-seeded} Leaves of 

 young plant half-erect, stiff, oblong, toothed at the edges of the 

 lower half, of a light green colour, which is almost entirely hidden 

 by a multitude of brown-red spots, which are usually very small 

 and often confluent. The full-grown plant does not head unless 

 tied up. Outer leaves entirely spreading, almost always folded 

 along the midrib, very much plaited, undulated, and twisted, and 

 very much tinged with deep brown-red. When artificially blanched, 

 the leaves of this variety ex- 

 hibit the same red variegation 

 on a white ground as those 

 of the Dark-red Cabbage 

 Lettuce. The plant is about 

 16 in. in diameter. 



Improved Spotted Cos 

 Lettuce (Black-seeded} 

 Young plant deeply tinged 

 with brown-red on a green 

 ground ; leaves rather short, 

 entire, rounded, spathulate. 

 It is much dwarfer and more 

 compact than the young plant 

 of the preceding variety, and 

 also not so red. The full- 

 grown plant has erect leaves, closely pressed against one another, 

 and surrounding an oblong, short, and rather compact head. 

 Outer leaves stiff, rounded or blunt at the ends, not much crimped, 



Spotted, or Aleppo, Cos Lettuce 

 ( natural size). 



