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the bed Sort of Lettuce known. 

 This Sort will endure the Cold of 

 our ordinary Winters full as well as 

 the White Cos; but at the Seafon 

 of its Cabbaging, if there happens 

 to be much wet, this Sort, being 

 very tender, is very fubjeft to rot. 



The Brown Dutch and Green Ca- 

 puchin Lettuces are very hardy, and 

 may be fown at the fame Scafons as 

 was directed for the common Cab- 

 bage-lettuce ; and are very proper to 

 plant under a Wall or Hedge to' 

 ftand the Winter ; where many times 

 thefe will abide, when moll of the 

 other Sorts are deftroy'd; and there- 

 fore they will prove very acceptable, 

 at a time when few other Sorts arc 

 to be had ; they will alfo endure 

 more Heat and Drought than moft 

 other Sorts of Lettuce, which ren- 

 ders them very proper for late fovv- 

 ing ; for it often happens, in very- 

 hot Weather, that the other Sorts of 

 Lettuce will run up to Seed in a few 

 Days after they are cabbaged ; 

 whereas thefe will abide near three 

 Weeks in good Order, efpecially if 

 Care be taken to cut the forwarded: 

 firft, leaving thofe that are not fo 

 hard cabbaged to be laft. In faving 

 of thefe Seeds, the fame Care mould 

 be taken to preferve only fuch as are 

 very large, and well-cabbaged, other- 

 wife- the Seeds will degenerate, and 

 be good for little. 



The Red Capuchin, Roman, and 

 Prince-lettuces are pretty Varieties, 

 and Cabbage very early ; for which 

 Reafon a few of them may be pre- 

 fervcd ; as may alfo fome of the 

 Aleppo, for the Beauty of its fpotted 

 Leaves ; ' tho' very few People care 

 for either of thefe Sorts at Table, 

 when the other more valuable ones 

 are to be obtained ; but in a Scarcity, 

 thefe may fupply the Place pretty 

 well ; and thefe Sorts are very pro- 

 per For Soups. The Seeds of thefe 



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mull alfo be faved from fuch as ca&* 

 bage belt, otherwife they will de- 

 generate, and be good for little. 



In faving Seeds of all thefe Sorts 

 of Lettuce, you mould obferve, 

 when the Plants have run up, to fix 

 a Stake down by the Sides of each, 

 to which the Stem mould be faflen'd, 

 to prevent their being broken, or 

 blown out of the Ground by Wind ; 

 to" which the Cilicia, and the other 

 large- growing Lettuces, are very 

 fubjecl when they are in Flower. 

 You mult, alfo obferve to cut fuch 

 Branches of the large-growing Let- 

 tuces as ripen firft, and not wait to 

 have the Seed of the whole Plant ripe 

 together, which never happens; but, 

 on the contrary, fome Branches will 

 be ripe a Fortnight or three Weeks 

 before others: and when you cut 

 them, they mull be fpread upon a 

 coarfe Cloth in a dry Place, that the 

 Seeds may dry ; after which you 

 fllould beat them out, and dry them 

 again, and then preferve them for 

 Uie, being careful to hang them up 

 where Mice and other Vermin can't 

 come at them ; for if they do, they 

 will foon eat them up. 



LACTUCA AGNINL Vide 

 Valerianella. 



LADY's SLIPPER. Vide Hel- 

 leborine. 



LADY's SMOCK. Vide Car- 

 damine. 



LAGOECLA, Baftard Cumin. 



The Chara&ers are ; 

 // hath many Flowers collected into 

 an Head, which have one common 

 Empalement compofed of eight indent' 

 ed Leaves ; but the Jimple Empale- 

 fnent to each Flower hath f cur Leaves t 

 which arc very narrow and penna~ 

 ted : the Flower conjtjis of five horned 

 Petals, which are foorter than the 

 Empalement : at the Bottom of each 

 Flower is Jit ua ted the Point al, at- 

 tended hj fve Stamina, which are 



