COS LETTUCES 



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a deep green colour, with brown spots and blotches. This Lettuce 

 heads of itself, but the produce is better when it is tied up, 

 and it then yields a large quantity of salad for the small size 

 of the plant, which does not exceed IO or 12 in. in diameter. This 

 variety differs entirely from the preceding one in having all its 

 leaves erect before they form the head, giving the plant somewhat 

 the shape of a funnel, while in the other kind the leaves are 

 spreading, and even turned backwards. 



Sprouting Cos Lettuce (White-seeded). Introduced from the 

 Pamirs of Central Asia, 

 it is very hardy, and 

 proof against drought. 

 The leaves are long, and 

 a dull light green. It 

 does not form a head, 

 but produces numerous 

 leafy tender shoots, which 

 issue vertically from the 

 axils of the lower leaves. 

 As a salad it is excellent 

 in default of better. 



We shall now proceed 

 to mention a few other 

 varieties, which, although 

 inferior in importance to 

 those already described, 

 nevertheless possess a 

 certain amount of merit. 



Brunoy White Cos 

 Lettuce. A rather leafy 

 plant, not heading unless 

 tied up ; leaves somewhat folded, entire at the edges and turned 

 back at the ends. This variety grows to a considerable size, but 

 runs to seed rather rapidly. There are both a white-seeded and 

 a black-seeded form of it, the latter of which appears to be the 

 same as the English variety named Ivery's Nonesuch. 



Romaine Blonde de Niort. This fine large variety is grown in 

 Vendee, where it is highly esteemed. It very much resembles the 

 Black-seeded Florence Cos, but runs to seed rather sooner. The 

 seed is white. 



Romaine de Chalabre. A very good kind of winter Cos for the 

 south of France, and even at Paris it bears ordinary winters well. 

 In appearance it rather resembles the Green Paris Cos, but it grows 

 much larger, and has the leaves tolerably toothed in the lower half. 



Romaine Epinerolle. A variety almost intermediate between 

 the Green and the White Paris Cos Lettuces, and apparently hardier 



Sprouting Cos Lettuce. 



