CABBAGE LETTUCE 



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Eureka Lettuce, Sugarloaf Lettuce, Tomhannock Lettuce, 



all red-coloured Lettuces, with a strong resemblance to the Brown 

 Batavian Lettuce. 



Drumhead Lettuce, Detroit Market Gardeners Lettuce, 

 Nonpareil Lettuce, Wonderful Lettuce have many points of 

 similarity with the Neapolitan Cabbage Lettuce. 



Hamilton Market Lettuce and Golden Curled Lettuce 

 closely resemble the Blond Stonehead Lettuce. 



Gardener's Favourite Lettuce, Moonshine Lettuce, the 

 Morse Lettuce, Perpetual Lettuce, Hanson Lettuce, Tilton's 

 White Star Lettuce, New Large-head Lettuce, Large India 

 Lettuce, Early Curled Silesia Lettuce are very nearly related to 

 the Simpson Early Lettuce. 



Hardy Green Winter Lettuce, Black-Seeded Tennis-ball 

 Lettuce, and Salamander Lettuce resemble nearly Versailles 

 Blond Lettuce. 



Boston Market Lettuce appears to be extremely similar to De 

 Zelande Lettuce, or at least intermediate between that and the 

 All the Year Round Lettuce. 



COS LETTUCES 



French, Laitues romaines. German, Romischer oder Binde Salat. Flemish, Ezelsoor 

 salat. Dutch, Roomsche latouw. Italian^ Lattuga romana. Spanish, Lechuga - 

 romana. Portuguese, Alface romana. 



The Cos Lettuces are distinguished from the common Cabbage 

 Lettuces by the shape of their leaves, which are elongated and 

 almost always somewhat spoon-shaped, and also by the usually 

 large size of the midrib, which in some varieties forms a regular 

 white, tender, and very thick chard. 



They are grown in exactly the same way as the Cabbage 

 Lettuces, only that, as they do not naturally form a head so well 

 as these, gardeners are in the habit of tying up the leaves together 

 in order to blanch the inner ones. There are winter, spring, and 

 summer varieties of Cos Lettuces. For forcing, and for early 

 sowing in the open air, the preference is given to the White Paris 

 Cos, next to which come the Green Paris Cos and the Gray Paris 

 Cos, all of which are closely allied kinds. For summer culture the 

 same varieties may be employed, and also the Florence Cos, or 

 Magnum Bonum {Romaine Alphange), the Giant Cos {^Romaine 

 Monsireuse), and the Brown, or Bath, Cos {^Ro7naine Bru7ie 

 Anglaise). Lastly, for winter culture in the open air, the Green 

 Winter Cos, the Royal Green, and the Blood-red Winter Cos are 

 the kinds most commonly selected. 



