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You may alfo continue thefe forts through the whole 
feafon of Lettuce, by lowing . them in April, May, and 
June, obferving, (as was before directed) to fow the 
late crops in a" fhady fituation, otherwife they will 
run up to feed before they grow to any fize ; but in the 
middle of September you may fow of thefe forts, to 
abide the winter which plants fnould be tranfplanted 
either under glaffes, or into a bed, which fhould be 
arched over with hoops, in order to be covered in the 
winter, otherwife in hard winters they are often de- 
ftroyed ; but you muft conftanly let thefe plants have 
as much free air as pofiible, when the weather is mild, 
only covering them in hard rains or frofty weather ; 
for if they are kept too clofely covered in winter, 
they will be fubjeft to a mouldinefs, which foon rots 
them. 
In the fpring thefe plants fhould be planted out into a 
rich light foil, allowing them at lead; fixteen inches 
diftance each way •, for if they are planted too dole, 
they are very fubjeft to grow tall, but feldom cab- 
bage well •, and from this crop, if they fucceed well, 
it will be proper to fave your feeds j though you 
fhould alfo fave from that. crop fown on the hot-bed 
in the fpring, becaule fometimes it happens, that the 
iirft may fail by a wet feafon, when the plants are 
full in flower, and the fecond crop may fucceed, by 
having a more favourable feafon afterwards ; and if 
they fhould both fucceed, there will be no harm in 
that, fince the feeds will grow very well when two 
years old, and if well faved, at three, but this will not 
always happen. 
The moft valuable of all the forts of Lettuce in Eng- 
land, are the Egyptian Green Cos, and the Verfailles, 
or White Cols, and the Cilicia, though fome people 
are very fond of the Royal and Imperial Lettuces, 
but they feldom fell fo well in the London markets as 
the other, nor are fo generally efteemed. Indeed of 
late years, fince the White Cos has been commonly 
cultivated, it has obtained the preference of all the 
other forts, until the Egyptian Green Cos was intro- 
duced, which is fo much fweeter and tenderer than 
the White Cos, that it is by all good judges efteemed 
the beft fort of Lettuce yet known. This fort will 
endure the cold of our ordinary winters full as well as 
the White Cos •, but at the feafon of its cabbaging, if 
there happens to be much wet, this being very tender, 
is very fubjeft to rot. 
The Brown Dutch and Green Capuchin Lettuces are 
very hardy, and may be fowh at the fame feafons as 
was direfted for the common Cabbage Lettuce, and 
are very proper to plant under a wall, or hedge, to 
fland the winter, where many times thefe will abide, 
when moft of the other forts are deftroyed, and there- 
fore they will prove very acceptable at a time when 
few other forts are to be had •, they will alfo endure 
more heat and drought than moft other forts of Let- 
tuce, which renders them very proper for late fowing ; 
for it very often happens, in very hot weather, that 
the other forts of Lettuce will run up to feed in a few 
days after they are cabbaged, whereas thefe will abide 
near a fortnight in good order, elpecially if care be 
taken to cut the forwarded: firft, leaving thofe that 
are not fo hard cabbaged to be laft. If fome plants 
of thefe two laft forts are planted under frames, on a 
moderate hot-bed in Oftober, they will be fit for ufe 
in April, which will prove acceptable to thofe who 
are lovers of Lettuce, and being covered by glafles, 
v/ill render them tender. In faving of thefe feeds, 
the fame care fhould be taken to preferve only fuch as 
are very large and well cabbaged, otherwife the feeds 
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 prelerved, as may alfo 
fome of the Aleppo, for the beauty of its fpotted 
leaves though very few people care for either of thefe 
forts at table, when the other more valuable ones are 
to be obtained ^ but in a fcarcity, thefe may fupply 
the place pretty well, and thefe forts are very proper 
for foups. The feeds of thefe muft alfo be faved from 
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fuch as cabbage beft, otherwife they will degenerate, 
and be good for little. 
In faving feeds of all thefe forts of Lettuce, you 
fhould obferve never to let two forts ftand near each 
other, for by their farina mixing, they will both vary 
from their original, and partake of each other ; and 
there fhould be a flake fixed down by the fide of each, 
to which the ftem fhould be faftened, to prevent their 
being broken, or blown out of the ground by wind, 
to which the Cilicia, Cos, and the other large growing 
Lettuces, are very fubjeft when they are in flower. 
You muft alfo obferve to cut fuch branches of the 
large growing Lettuce as ripen firft, and not wait to 
have the feed 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 j 
and when you cut them, they muft be fpread upon a 
coarfe cloth in a dry place, that the feeds may dry, 
after which you fhould beat them out, and dry them 
again, and then preferve them for ufe, being careful 
to hang them up where mice and other vermin can- 
not come at them •, for if they do, they will foon eat 
them up. 
LACTUCA AG NINI. See Valerianella. 
LADY’s SLIPPER. See Cypripedium. 
LADY’s SMOCK. See Cardamin. 
L A G CE C I A, Baftard Cumin. 
The Characters are, 
It hath many flowers collected into a head , which have 
one common empalement , compofed of eight indented leaves , 
hut the flmple empalement to each flower hath five leaves , 
which are very narrow and pinnated , ending in many 
hair-like points. 'The flower confifts of five horned petals, 
which are floorter than the empalement •, at the bottom of 
each flower is fituated the germen , fupporting a ftyle 
crowned by a fimple ftigma , attended by five ftamina, 
which are long and narrow •, the germen afterward changes 
to an oval feed , crowned with the empalement . 
There is but one Species of this plant, viz. 
Lagoecia ( Cuminoides .) Lin. Hort. Cliff. Baflard , or 
Wild Cumin. 
We have no other Englifh name for this plant, nor 
is this a very proper one, but as it has been titled by 
fome of the antient botanifts Cuminum fylveftre, i. e. 
Wild Cumin, and by Dr. Tournefort it is made a 
diftind genus, by the title of Cuminoides, it may 
be ftyled Wild, or Baftard Cumin. 
This is an annual plant, which grows about a foot 
high. The leaves refemble thofe of the Honey wort. 
The flowers, which are of a greenifh yellow colour, 
are collected in lpherical heads at the extremity of the 
ftalks ; but there being little beauty in the plant, it 
is rarely cultivated, except in botanic gardens. It 
grows plentifully about Aix, in Provence, as alfo in 
moft of the iflands of the Archipelago. It is annual, 
and perifhes foon after the feeds are ripe. The feeds 
of this plant fhould be fown in autumn on a warm 
, border, foon after they are ripe ; or if they are per- 
mitted to fcatter, the plants will come up, and re- 
quire no other care but to clear them from weeds. 
When the feeds are fown in the fpring, they com- 
monly remain in the ground a year before they grow, 
and fometimes I have known them to lie two or three 
years in the ground, fo that if the plants do not come 
up the firft year, the ground fhould not be difturbed. 
LAGOPUS. See Trifolium. 
LAMINATED fignifies platted. Thofe things are 
faid to be laminated, whofe contexture difcovers fuch 
a difpofition as that of plates lying over one another, 
or the fcales of fifh. 
LAMIUM. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 183. tab. 89, Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 636. Dead Nettle, or Archangel. 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath a permanent empalement of one leaf, 
which is tubulous , and cut into five equal figments at the 
top , which end in beards. The flower is of the lip kind ; 
it hath one petal , with a jhort cylindrical tube, fwollen at 
the chaps and comprejjed ; the upper lip is arched , roundijh , 
obtufle , and entire the under is Jhort , heart-Jhaped, re- 
flexed, and indented at the end. It hath four awl-Jhaped 
