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Etampes Corn-salad (| natural size). 



colour of the leaves, which are very light green with a pronounced 

 golden tinge on the parts exposed to the light. The leaves are 



oval, broad, and very smooth. It 

 is used for salads, and when mixed 

 with the dark green varieties makes 

 a pleasant contrast. 



Etampes Corn-salad. — This 

 variety is especially characterised 

 by the extremely dark colour of 

 its leaves, which, like those of the 

 Common kind, are rather narrow 

 and marked very perceptibly with 

 veins ; they are also often undu- 

 lated or folded back at the edges. 

 The whole plant forms a rosette 

 somewhat more compact and stiff 

 than of the Common kind, and 

 the leaves are rather thicker and more fleshy than those of the 

 other varieties. They bear cold weather remarkably well, and 

 they have the advantage of losing their freshness less than those 

 of any other kind while they are being brought to market — a 

 valuable quality in plants which have sometimes to be sent to 

 markets at a considerable 

 distance. 



Cabbaging Corn- 

 salad. — A very distinct 

 variety, with short,rounded, 

 smooth, half-erect, stiff, 

 and intensely green leaves, 

 the veins of which are 

 hardly visible. It forms 

 a compact rosette, the 

 heart of which is full and 

 firm. It is, to all appear- 

 ance, a less productive 

 kind than the Round- 

 leaved variety, but firmer, 

 more compact, and much 

 more agreeable to the 

 taste in a salad. Like 

 the preceding variety, it 

 bears carriage well. 



This is undoubtedly 

 the same variety as that 

 which was grown some years past under the name of Chevreuse 

 Smooth-leaved Green Corn-salad. 



Cabbaging Corn-salad. 



