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COS, OR ROMAINE LETTUCE 
r pwo characteristics make this type deserving of a 
place in every garden: its great heat resistance 
and the crisp quality of the flat, elongated leaves. 
Moreover, cos lettuce is much easier to grow than the 
more exacting head lettuces. When properly bleached it 
compares very favorably with the butterheads. 
Cos lettuce may be divided into two classes, being partly 
of self-folding and partly of spreading habit of growth. 
Eclipse or Express Cos is the best example of the self- 
folding type, forming symmetrical and erect heads which, 
because of their compact growth, blanch nicely in centre. 
It is ready in sixty days. 
Paris White Cos is of the spreading type. When of good 
size, outer leaves of plant should be gathered up and tied 
loosely to blanch centre. 
Magnum Bonum, as shown here, is the largest, but also 
latest, developing in about seventy-five days. On good 
soil plants frequently weigh two pounds. 
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