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ing the moft elTential part of the care of 

 this time of the year, as acceleration is 

 the bufinefs of the fpring. All that is 

 to be added in relation to lettuces, is, 

 that there is a kind calFd laEiuca agnina^ 

 or lambs lettuce, of two or three kinds, 

 which properly belong to this clafs 5 Ge- 

 rard and Tarkinfon have two fpecies, 

 one with narrow leaves,, caird agnina 

 laEiuca^ Gerardy p, i\o. lambs lettuce, 

 or corn-fallet 5 and the other, la6iuca 

 agnina latifoliay or the broad-leav'd 

 lambs lettuce, Tarkinfon, Gerardy 

 p, 310. to which the Oxford catalogue 

 has added another kind (which I have 

 not feen) called laBuca agnina foliis 

 ^ariegatiSy i. e. the party-colour'd lamb 

 lettuce 5 as alfo two other wild kinds I 

 need not mention. 



Lob or lop lettuce is only feed faved 

 from lettuce ftalks that never cabbaged, 

 and is for that reafon faved only to cut 

 in the feed leaves. 



I have fome few years fmce feen a 

 beautiful kind of cabbage lettuce from 

 Hollandy all marbled or ftrip'd, which 

 is an extraordinary lettuce for the or- 

 nament of a fallet, the infide being ve- 

 ry often as red as blood, and is as good 



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