cultivated in the Garden of the Society. 575 



Cabbage Lettuces, known by the name of Gotte or Gau, 

 and both with black and white seeds ; some of them however 

 run quickly to seed, and have therefore little merit except 

 for forcing. The variety now described has black seeds, 

 and this circumstance should be particularly attended to, in 

 obtaining it from the seedsmen, the white seeded kinds 

 running early. It is called by the French gardeners, Laitue 

 Gotte a graine noire lente a monter. 



Ice Lettuce. 



Seeds of this Lettuce were brought from the United States, 

 under the above name, by Mr. David Douglas, in 1823, 

 and it was raised the following year. It belongs to the 

 division of Silesian or Batavian Lettuces, and must not be 

 confounded with the Ice Lettuce of Scotland, which is our 

 White Cos Lettuce. The leaves are of a light shining 

 green, blistered on the surface, very undulated, and slightly 

 jagged round the edges, they grow nearly erect, being eight 

 inches long, and five or six inches broad. The outer spread 

 a little at the top, but grow very close at the heart. It 

 blanches without tying up, and becomes very white, crisp, 

 and tender. It comes into use with the White Silesian, from 

 which it differs, as it also does from any other of its class, in 

 being much more curled, having a lucid sparkling surface, 

 whence probably its name, and not turning in so much at the 

 heart. It lasts as long in crop as the White Silesian. 



Proliferous Leek, 

 Is a variety of the common Leek, being viviparous, that 

 is, it produces young plants on its flower stalk, instead of 



