CABBAGE LETTUCE 



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Black-seeded Crisped Cabbage 

 Lettuce natural size). 



hand-bells or in frames, it is ready for use about the same time 

 as the early spring varieties, but is much larger in size. 



The variety known in America by the name of Crisp^as-Ice 

 Lettuce resembles it very closely, although rather lighter in colour. 



Black-seeded Crisped Cabbage Lettuce {Laitue Crepe a 

 Graine Noire). — Young plant rather compact, with leaves nearly 

 round in outline, but angularly indented. The young leaves begin 

 very soon to fold themselves like a twisted paper bag. The full- 

 grown plant is small, low, resting on 

 the ground, of a very pale green, 

 somewhat irregular in outline, and 6 

 or 7 in. in diameter. Outer leaves 

 broad but short, slightly undulated at 

 the edges, twisted, and very sparingly 

 crimped ; head round, slightly flattened, 

 formed of leaves which are paler in 

 colour, but much less crimped and 

 curled than those of the White-seeded 

 Tennis-ball Lettuce ; it is firm and 

 forms quickly, but does not last long. This variety is chiefly 

 grown for an early crop under bell-glasses and in frames, in winter 

 and early spring. 



White-Seeded Crisped, or Early Paris Cutting, Cabbage 

 Lettuce. — The leaves of the young plant are broad and short, with 

 an angular or bluntly toothed outline, and light green in colour, 

 which changes almost to a butter-yellow in the parts exposed to the 

 sun. The full-grown plant is of medium size, about 8 in. in 

 diameter, with leaves of a light green colour, very much curled and 

 undulated. Outer leaves very much folded and waved at the 

 edges, broadly and bluntly toothed, and coarsely crimped here and 

 there ; head of medium size, tall, formed of leaves which are 

 paler and much more crimped than the outer ones, and also more 

 curled than those of the Black-seeded Tennis-ball Lettuce. It 

 is generally soft, although very full, forms 

 quickly, but is soon put out of shape by 

 the quick growth of the flower-stem. This 

 variety is well adapted for spring culture, 

 especially in the open air. When sown in 

 autumn, it bears the winter pretty well. 



White-seeded Tennis-ball, or Boston 

 Market, Cabbage Lettuce {Laitue gotte gr. 

 bl.). — The young plant of this variety has 

 leaves of a very light green colour (which become yellow where it 

 is exposed to the sun), and of an outline which is angular rather than 

 decidedly toothed, except at the base. The young leaves begin 

 very soon to become crimped and rumpled, and plants which have 



White - seeded Tennis - ball 

 Cabbage Lettuce natural 

 size). 



