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1. Common or Garden Lettuce* 



2. Cubbdgc Lettuce. 5. S'llejui Let- 

 tuce. 4. Dutch Bromn Lettuce. 

 jf. Aleppo Lettuce, 6. Impirial Let- 

 tuce. 7. Green Capuchin Lettuce, 

 8. Vtrfailles or Upright White Cos 

 Lettuce, 9. Black Cos. 10. U^nte 

 Cos. 1 1 . Red Capuchin Lettuce. 

 1 2. Roman Lettuce, i 5. Prince Let- 

 tuce. 14. Royal Lettuce. 



The firfl of thefe Sorts is com- 

 monly Ibwn in the Winter and 

 Spring, for cutting very young, to 

 mix with other fmali Sallet Herbs, 

 and is only different from the le- 

 cond Sort, in being a Degeneracy 

 therefrom, or otherwife the fecond 

 is an Improvement by frequent 

 Cultivation from the firil i tor if 

 the Seeds are faved from fuch Plants 

 of the fecond Sort as did not cab- 

 bage clofely, the Plants produced 

 from that Seed will ail degenerate 

 to the firll Sort, which is by the 

 Gardeners call'd Laped Lettuce, to 

 difliinguifii it from the other, which 

 they call Caibage Lettuce. The 

 Seeds of the hrll:, which are com- 

 monly iav'd from any of the Plants, 

 without having Regard to their 

 Goodnefs, are generally fold at a 

 very cheap Rate, (eipeciaily in dry 

 Seaibns, when thefe Plants always 

 produce the grcateft Qiiantiry of 

 Seeds) j rho" lometimcs this Seed is 

 fold in the Seeci-fliops, and by Per- 

 ibns who maice a Trade of felling 

 Seeds, for the Cabbage Lettuce^ 

 which is often the Occalion of 

 Peoples being difappoinred in their 

 Crop : So that this Sort fliould 

 never be cultivated but to be cut 

 up very young, for which Purpofe 

 this is the only good Sort, and 

 may be Town any Time of the Year, 

 obferving only in hot Weather to 

 fbw it on fliady Borders, and in the 

 Spring and Autumn upon warm 

 Borders \ but in Winter it fliould 



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be fbwn under Glafles, otherwise 

 it is fubje<ft to be deftroy'd by ie- 

 vere Frofts. 



The Cabbage Lettuce may alfo 

 be fbwn at different Times of the 

 Year, in order to have a Continua- 

 tion of it thro* the whole Seafonj 

 the tirft Crop is generally ibwn in 

 February, which fhould be upon 

 an open warm Spot of Ground, 

 and v/hen the Plonts are come up, 

 they fliould be thin'd out, to the 

 Diftance of ten Inches each Way, 

 which may be done by hoeing them 

 out, as ispradtis'd for Turnips, Car- 

 rots. Onions, &c. provided you have 

 no Occaiion for the iuperfluous 

 Plants, otherwife they may be drawn 

 up and tranfplanted into another 

 Spot of- good Ground at the fame 

 Diltance, which if done before the 

 Plants are too large, they will ilic- 

 ceed very well, though they will 

 not be ib large as thofe which 

 were left upon the Spot where 

 they were fown j but they will 

 come fomewhat later, which will 

 be of Service, where Peopled© not 

 continue fowing every Month. 



You mufl: alfo obierve in fbwing 

 the fuccceding Crops, as the Sea- 

 fon advances, to chufe a fhady moid 

 Situation ; but not under the Drip 

 of Trees, otherwife in the Heat of 

 Summer, they will run up to Seed 

 before rhey cabbage: In the be- 

 ginning oi Augufl, you fliould fbw 

 the lait Crop, which is to ftand 

 over Winter, and fhould be fown 

 thin, upon a good light Soil, in a 

 warm Situation, and when the 

 Plants are come up, they mud be 

 hoed out fb as to ftand fingly, and 

 cut down all the Weeds to clear 

 them i and the Beginning of OHober 

 they fliould be tranfplanted into 

 warm Borders, where, if the Win- 

 ter is not very fevere, they will 

 Hand very welli but in order to 



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