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thofe being fufficient for the furniture 

 of a middling, or indeed any confider- 

 able table ; the reft may be fow'd in 

 more extenfive gardens, where great va- 

 riety is required. For winter lettuces, I 

 recommend the common cabbage, brown 

 "Dutch and Genoa lettuces, in refped of 

 their hardinefs : for the fpring, to be 

 tied up and blanch'd^, and to maintain 

 the table all the fummer months, the 

 cofs or gofs lettuce, the beft of all, the 

 white Imperial, curled and plain, and the 

 Silejia^ &c. and for the autumn, the 

 Arabia and Bellegarde lettuces, and fome 

 few of the preceding months ; for the 

 autumn and winter, I have alfo feen a 

 moft excellent bright kind of lettuce, 

 called the Smyrna lettuce, which fome 

 time fince my very ingenious and wor- 

 thy friend, Mr. Jacob Wrench^, of Vara- 

 dife garden in Oxford, communicated 

 to me, but as it is very difficult to feed 

 here, how hardy foevcr it is to ftand 

 the winter, I have loft it, and know not 

 at prefent how to retrieve it. 

 F^n-ticu' Thofe defigned for winter, which is 

 larfcajons the fcarccft time of all the year, are 

 Vj'^^^-^g- fowed on old hot beds, and in about a 

 fortnight or three weeks after that they 



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