574 Report on Remarkable Esculent Vegetables 



Union Lettuce. 

 This is an excellent summer Cabbage Lettuce, hearting 

 well, of good size, and remaining long without running to 

 seed. It has acquired much reputation amongst the seeds- 

 men, and has been circulated pretty extensively by Mr. 

 Hugh Ronalds, of Brentford, from whom the Society first 

 obtained it. It has also been raised in the Garden under the 

 name of the Imperial Lettuce, and it appears to be the same 

 which is called Laitue Turque, and Laitue Imperiale, by the 

 French gardeners. The leaves are of a yellowish green 

 colour, very large and plain ; the outer are much expanded, 

 and slightly undulated ; the inner somewhat wrinkled, and 

 forming a close head. It cabbages freely, but is not very 

 firm, though of good quality. 



Black Seeded Gotte Lettuce. 

 A small spring Cabbage Lettuce. It grows very close to 

 the ground. Its heart is hard and firm, about four inches 

 in diameter when stripped of the outer leaves. Colour very 

 pale green. The leaves are thin and nearly round, rugose, 

 waved on the edges. This Lettuce comes early into use, 

 and has besides much excellence as respects its flavour ; 

 but its chief merit is that it remains longer than almost 

 any other before it runs to seed, and even sometimes bursts 

 before its flower stem is formed. It is the smallest of all 

 the kinds of Cabbage Lettuce, except the Tennis Ball, from 

 which it differs in its leaves being more curled, and of a 

 lighter green colour, and by not running to seed so soon by 

 three weeks or a month. This Lettuce is derived from the 

 French gardens, in which there are several sorts of early 



