CABBAGE LETTUCE 



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Brown Batavian, or Marseilles, Cabbage Lettuce 

 (•J natural size). 



elongated, more like the head of a Cos than that of a Cabbage 

 Lettuce, almost always soft, and seldom well formed ; outer leaves 

 very large, erect for some portion of their length, then turned 

 backwards, crimped, very much undulated and puckered at the 

 edges, and of a dark green 

 colour tinged with brown on 

 all the parts that are most 

 exposed to the sun. The 

 plant is about 16 in. in 

 diameter, and nearly the 

 same in height. This variety 

 does not succeed well in the 

 climate of Paris, but is in 

 high repute in warm climates, 

 and even in the south of 

 France. 



Neapolitan Cabbage 

 Lettuce ( White - seeded ) . — 

 Young plant dark green ; 

 leaves shortly spathulate, 

 wavy at the edges, toothed, and slightly crimped. Head of full- 

 grown plant large, depressed, sometimes almost flat, whitish green, 

 and slightly crimped ; outer leaves of a rather dark green, spreading 

 on the ground, finely crimped, very much curled and undulated 

 at the edges. The plant is often 12 to 14 in. in diameter. This 

 variety keeps the head better, perhaps, than any other kind of 

 Lettuce. It often happens that the flower-stem is unable to make 

 its way through the head, unless the latter is cut so as to give 

 it a passage. 



Blockhead, Lettuce ( White-seeded). — 

 very light green, almost white, tinged 

 yellow, sparingly crimped, 

 much waving at the edges 

 and slightly fringed or cut 

 The head is very large, rather 

 flat and solid ; the outer leaves 

 are large, broad, spreading, 

 very finely crimped, and 

 waving at the edges, much 

 like those of Neapolitan 

 Lettuce, but much lighter in 

 colour. An excellent summer 

 Lettuce much grown by market-gardeners around Paris. 



Large Bossin Cabbage Lettuce {Black-seeded).— Yowng plant 

 a light green, almost yellow, with some brown spots ; leaves 

 longish, toothed, and tinged with brown on the veins and edges. 



Blond Stonehead, or 



The leaves at first are a 



Neapolitan Cabbage Lettuce Q natural size). 



