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for early and quick growth ; it forms its head in six weeks, at least 

 ten days before the Trocadero Lettuce. May be sown the whole 

 season, and is fit for use during the greater part of the year. In 

 summer, when most other sorts are withering or running to seed, it 



keeps its head very 

 well. 



Mogul Cabbage, 

 or Black-seeded Giant 

 Summer, Lettuce 



{Laitue Grosse Bruite 

 P aresseuse) {Black- 

 seeded). — Young plant 

 of a rather pale dull 

 green, marked with 

 brown spots ; leaves 

 short, rounded, entire 

 at the end and toothed 

 along the sides. This 

 is a large strong- 

 growing kind, the full- 

 grown plant being 



Unrivalled Cabbage Lettuce. 



Cabbage Lettuce {^Laitue 



about I ft. in diameter. Outer leaves very large, light green, much 

 paler on the inner side, folded rather than crimped, and marked, 

 as are all the other leaves, with brown spots ; head tall, compact, 

 tinged with brown-red on the top, and composed of leaves which 

 are tolerably crimped, and become spoon-shaped as they overlap 

 one another. This is a very hardy and exceedingly productive 

 kind, very suitable for field culture. The Berlaimont Lettuce, 

 which is in high repute in the north of France, appears to us to be 

 identical with it 



White-seeded Brown Dutch 

 monte-d-peine gr. bl.). — Young 

 plant dull green, tinged with 

 brown on the veins ; leaves 

 rounded, spathulate, slightly 

 toethed towards the base, the 

 central ones soon becoming 

 crimped and undulated. Head 

 of the full-grown plant rounded, 

 or slightly elongated, very full 

 and firm, pale green, deeply 

 tinged with red on top; outer 

 leaves rounded, with entire margins, crimped, of a gray-green 

 colour, edged and tinged with light brown ; those which surround 

 the head are very much crimped, folded, and twisted. All the 

 parts exposed to the sun, whether on the upper or lower side 



Mogul Cabbage Lettuce (|- natural size). 



