KITCHEN GARDEN. 



The following are the principal sorts at present culti- 

 vated in this country : 



CABBAGE LETTUCES. 



1. Black-seeded Gotte. 8. Imperial. 

 Laitue Gotte a graine noire. Union. 



2. Brown Dutch. 9. Large White. 



3. Brown Silesia. 10. Marseilles. 



4. Drumhead. 11. Saxony. 



5. Frame. 12. Tennis Ball. 



6. Grand Admiral. 13. White Silesia. 



7. Hammersmith. 



COS LETTUCES. 



14. Brown, or Bath Cos. 18. Green Cos. 



15. Dwarf Brown Cos. Cove Cos. 



16. Egyptian Cos. 19. Spotted Cos. 



17. Florence Cos. 20. White Cos. 



The Black-seeded Gotte Lettuce is a small spring 

 Cabbage Lettuce. It grows very close to the ground ; 

 its heart is hard and firm ; about four inches in diameter 

 when stripped of its outer leaves. Colour very pale 

 green. This Lettuce conies early into use, is excellent 

 in its flavour, and remains longer than almost any other 

 sort before it runs to seed. It is the smallest of all the 

 kinds of Cabbage Lettuce, except the Tennis Ball, from 

 which it differs in its leaves being more curled, and of a 

 lighter green colour, and not running to seed so soon by 

 three weeks or a month. 



The Grand Admiral, Imperial, and large PFhifa, 

 are grown as spring Lettuces, and succeed the Black- 

 seeded Gotte. 



The Hammersmith and Tennis Ball are sown in 

 August to stand the winter, and are the first to be cut 

 in the spring. 



The Egyptian Cos, Florence Cos, the Green, 

 Spotted,, and White Cos, supply the first salads in the 

 summer ; and the Brown, and Dwarf Brown Cos, are 



