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fowing thefe Seeds is at the latter 

 End of February) or the Beginning 

 of March, upon a warm light Soil, 

 and an open Situation; /'. e. not 

 overmadow'd with Trees ; and 

 when the Plants are come up, they 

 ihould be either hoed out, or tranf- 

 •planted into another Spot of Ground 

 (as was direcled for the Cabbage- 

 lettuce), obferving to leave thefe 

 Sorts fifteen or fixteen Inches apart 

 each Way ; which will be full near 

 enough for thefe Plants, efpecially 

 if the Soil be good ; and you mult 

 carefully keep them clear from 

 Weeds, which is the only Culture 

 they will require, except the Black 

 Cos Lettuce, which mould be tie J up 

 when they are full-grown (in the 

 manner as was directed for blanching 

 of Endive), to whiten their inner 

 Leaves, and render them crifp ; 

 otherwife they are feldom good for 

 much, rarely cabbaging without 

 this Afliftance. 



When your Lettuces are in Per- 

 fection, you Ihould look over them, 

 and mark as many of the belt of 

 them as you in:end for Seed (in the 

 fame manner as was before direcled 

 for the common Cabbage-lettuce) ; 

 being very careful not to fuffer any 

 ordinary ones to feed amongfr them, 

 as was before obferved; which would 

 prove more injurious to thefe Sorts 

 than to the common, as being more 

 inclinable to degenerate with us, if 

 they are not carefully preferved. 



You may alfo continue thefe Sorts 

 through the Seafon, by fowing them 

 in April, May, and June ; obferv- 

 ing (as was before directed) to low 

 the late 'Crops in a moillmady Situ- 

 ation, otherwife they will run up to 

 Seed before they grow to any Size ; 

 but mJuguft, toward the latter End, 

 you may fow of thefe Sorts, to abide 

 the Winter ; which Plants fnould be 

 tranfplanted either ur.der dalles, or 



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into a Bed, which mould be arch'd 

 over with Hoops, in order to be co- 

 ver'd in the Winter, otherwife in 

 hard Winters they areoften dellroy'd; 

 but you mud conftantly let thefe 

 Plants have as much open free Air 

 as poflible, when the Weather is 

 mild ; only covering them in hard 

 Rains, or frolty Wenher j for if 

 they are kept too clolely cover'd in 

 Winter, they will be fubject to a 

 Mouldinefs, w hich foon rots them. 



In the Spring thefe Plants mould 

 be planted out into a rich light Soil, 

 allowing them at leaft eighteen Inch- 

 es Diftance each Way ; for if they 

 are planted tooclofe, they are very 

 fubject to grow tali, but feldom cab- 

 bage well; and from this Crop, if 

 they fucceed well, it will be proper 

 to fave your Seeds : tho' you mould 

 alfo fave from that Crop fown in. 

 the Spring ; becaule fometimes it 

 happen^, that the finl may fail by a 

 wet Seafon, when the Plants are full 

 in Flower, and the fecond Crop may 

 fucceed, by having a more favour- 

 able Scafon ; and if they mould both 

 fucceed, there will be no Harm in 

 thar, fince the Seeds will grow very 

 well when two Years old ; and" if 

 well faved, at three ; but this will 

 not always happen. 



The molt valuable of a'l the Sorts 

 of Lettuce in England are the Egy- 

 ptian Green Cos, and the rerfaitks 9 

 cr White Cos, the Clicia, and Black 

 Cos ; tho' fome Peop e are very fond 

 of the Royal and Imperial Lettuces ; 

 tut they feldom fell fo well in the 

 London Markets as the other, nor are 

 fo generally efteem'd. Indeed of late 

 Years, fince the White Cos has been 

 commonly cultivated, it hasobtain'd 

 the Preference of all the other Sorts, 

 until the Egyptian Green Cos was in- 

 troduced ; which is fo much fweeter 

 and tenderer than the White Cos, 

 that it is by all good Judges efteeraed (- 

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