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tender head. The inner leaves are almost white, and streaked 

 with bright red ; the outer ones are of a dark green with brown 

 blotches. 



Spotted Cabbage Lettuce {Black-seeded). — This variety differs 

 from the preceding one in the fineness of the red streaks with 

 which the leaves are marked, which gives the whole plant a bronzy 

 tinge. The inner leaves appear as if dusted with red on a white 

 ground. Both this and the preceding kind have been superseded 

 by the new Improved White-seeded variety. 



Tannhauser. — A compact variety, with thick, rounded leaves 

 and round head, rather like the Large Normandy Lettuce, but 

 differing from it entirely in the colour of its seed, which is 

 black. 



White Stone Cabbage Lettuce. — A compact plant, with 

 crimped, wavy leaves of a light green, almost yellow, colour, 

 tinged with light brown on the top of the head, which is of 

 medium size, close, and somewhat flattened. It is a good summer 

 variety, hardy, and slow in running to seed. The only fault it has 

 is its slightly bitter flavour. Seed white. 



De Zelande. — A handsome and compact variety of Cabbage 

 Lettuce, of a very pale yellow colour, remarkably like the Berlin 

 White Summer Lettuce, except that the head is almost ovoid in 

 shape, being longer than broad. Seed black. 



In America they cultivate a very large number of varieties of 

 Cabbage Lettuce, which, though not exactly similar, have many 

 points in common with our own : — 



The Yellow-seeded Butter and Market Gardener's Private 

 Stock Lettuces are evidently closely related to the All the Year 

 Round, or White BerHn Summer Lettuce. 



Premium Cabbage Lettuce, Large Yellow Surehead 

 Lettuce, Philadelphia Butter Lettuce, Silver-ball Lettuce, 

 Black-seeded Butter Lettuce have many points of similarity 

 with the Large White Stone Summer Lettuce. 



Fox Sterling Lettuce, Hubbard's Market Lettuce, Golden 

 Queen Lettuce : closely allied to the All the Year Round Lettuce. 



Russian Lettuce, St. Louis Butter Lettuce, Deacon or 

 San Francisco Market Lettuce: closely related to Imperial or 

 Asiatic Lettuce. 



Myer's Ail-Right Lettuce resembles the Red-edged Trocadero 

 Lettuce. 



Large Loaf Lettuce, Maximum Lettuce, and California 

 Cream Butter Lettuce resemble the Large Green Lettuce. 



Large Brown and Hardhead Lettuce are in most respects 

 the same as Brown Stonehead Lettuce. 



Chartier Lettuce, India-head Lettuce, Marble-head Mam- 

 moth Lettuce resemble the White Silesian Lettuce. 



