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when the lower leaves are about five or six inches long ; and 

 if not then taken off too short, will afford a second cutting. 

 It is of course to be sown early with other spring salad seeds, 

 but lasts well through the summer. 



Endive-leaved Lettuce. Laitue chicoree. 

 This Lettuce is called by botanists Lactuca Intybacea, from 

 the resemblance its leaves bear to those of the Curled Endive. 

 The lower leaves are small, lyrate, sinuated, and irregularly 

 lobed, with sharp teeth, rather broad at the top, and of a pale 

 green colour. When young, the plants have very much the 

 appearance of Green Curled Endive. It runs to flower much 

 earlier than the Laitue Epinarde, and is consequently less 

 useful. It should be sown thick in drills, and cut when 

 about three or four inches in height. The time of its being 

 sown, and its uses, are the same as those of the preceding. 



Salad Cabbage Lettuce. 

 This is a small pale green Cabbage Lettuce, with roundish 

 entire leaves, a little dentated at the base, about four inches 

 long, and three inches wide, slightly wrinkled. It is to be 

 sown thick in drills, and does not then form any heart ; it 

 comes rather later into use than either of the two preceding 

 small Salad Lettuces. If planted singly, it forms a small 

 loose heart, being something like our common White Cab- 

 bage Lettuce, of which it seems to be a variety. It runs 

 soon to seed. The seeds are sent from France, under the 

 name of Laitue a couper, or, Laitue petite : it is distin- 

 guished from those early Lettuces which are called Laitues 



