204 SALAD PLANTS. 



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in diameter, and weigh four ounces. In cool weather, the 

 plants attain a diameter of twelve inches, and weigh from 

 ten to twelve ounces. The seeds are white. 



The Victoria Lettuce is larger than the Tennis-ball, heads 

 freely, and is crisp and well flavored. When sown in sum- 

 mer, it soon runs to flower ; but, in cool weather, the heads 

 are well retained. 



"White Qotte, A small, low-growing, yellowish-green cab- 

 (B ed?) k "B'f. d " bage-lettuce, with a loose, open head. The 

 plants rarely measure more than six inches in 

 their full diameter, or weigh above four ounces. 



It is one of the earliest of all the lettuces ; crisp, of good 

 flavor, and well adapted for forcing, or for frame culture. 

 Besides the distinction in the color of the seeds, it differs 

 from the White-seeded White Gotte in its smaller and more 

 loosely formed heads. 



"White Gotte, This variety has a small, long, firm, and 

 seeded.) vil. close head, and is uniformly of a yellowish- 



WHITE TENNIS- .^ , . P ,. 



BALL. green color. Ihe plant is 01 small dimensions, 



and rarely measures more than six or seven inches in di- 

 ameter, or weighs above three ounces. The variety is early, 

 crisp, and well flavored, but soon runs to seed, and is much 

 better adapted for growing in winter, or for forcing, than 

 for cultivation in the summer months. 



"White Sile- One of the largest of the cabbage-lettuces. 

 WM?e ( Bata- Head golden-green, tinted with brownish-red 

 D cVs- about the top, regularly, but not compactly 



B DKUMH^!D? E formed. The exterior leaves are large and 

 broad, yellowish-green bordered with brown, 

 wrinkled, and coarsely blistered. When well grown, the 

 entire diameter of the plant is eighteen inches, and its 

 weight twenty ounces. The seeds are white. 



