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'of which is of a darker green than the latter, is 

 rather hardier and not quite so good. These 

 \vhen true to their kind and in a proper situation, 

 rise up, and fold in their leaves to a solid loaf, 

 like a sugar-loaf cabbage, and, in rich land, with 

 good management they will become nearly as 

 large. When you cut one of these from the stem, 

 and pull off its outside leaves, you have a large 

 lumji of white, enough for a salad for ten people, 

 unless they be French, and, then you must have 

 a lettuce to every person. Every body knows 

 how to sow lettuce-seed along a drill, in the 

 spring, to let the plants stand as thick as grass, 

 and to cut it along with a knife, and gather it 

 up by handfuls. But, this is not lettuce. It is 

 herbage, and really fit only for pigs and eows. 

 It is a raw, green, Dandelion, and is not quite 

 so good. The plants of these fine sorts may, in- 

 deed be kept through the winter in the same 

 manner, and with the same care, as Cauliflower 

 plants (which see in Paragraph 209) ; but, if this 

 be not done, you must raise them in the spring in 

 precisely the same way as the very earliest cab- 

 bage-plants, for which see Paragraphs from 77 

 to 94. Put the plants out into the natural ground, 

 about a fortnight before the general Cornplanting 

 time. Do not put them in a place full to the sun. 

 but in the east border, or in the west border. 

 Make the ground rich, right strong^ break it well, 

 and, in transplanting, keep as much earth as you 

 can about the roots, and give a little water ; and 

 transplant in the evening. These plants will loave 

 about the time of the early cabbages, and some 

 of them will not go off to seed for six weeks af- 

 ter they are loaved. So that, about two square 



