n 
LETTUCE 
LETTUCE 
Laitue. Lactuca sativa crispa. 
Large Green Head* 
Dutch, or Cabbage. 
Tennis Ball, or Rose, 
Madeira, or Passion. 
Large Green Curled. 
Loco Foco. 
VARIETIES. 
-3 
tr 
CD 
CO 
f«r ® 
Early Silesia. 
Imperial, or Sugar Loaf 
Pale Green, or Butter 
Grand Admiral. 
Large Summer Silesia. 
Paris Loaf Coss. 
It would be easy to furnish a more extensive catalogue of 
Lettuce, as the varieties are numerous ; but as this is one of 
those kinds of vegetables that can only be raised in perfec 
tion during mild and temperate weather, it is needless foi 
the gardener to plant any in the open ground, but such as 
have been tested, and found to stand a tolerable degree of 
warm weather, which generally prevails in May and June, 
and consequently cuts short the salad season. Those who 
nave been accustomed to raise head Lettuce in any quantity, 
know the trouble of preparing the ground and planting, and 
the loss they would sustain if several thousand plants should 
run to seed just as they appeared to be perfecting for market. 
As this is often the case, even with the very best attention, I 
would caution gardeners to test such plants as they are not 
acquainted with, before they set out any quantity with a view 
to their heading* 
The six varieties inserted in the first column of our cata- 
* It may be necessary here to remind the gardener, that moisture is the 
most essential nutriment of Lettuce, and that the very best varieties may 
run to seed without forming heads, in the event of extreme warm weather. 
Those who put off the sowing of seed until May and June, instead of 
sowing it in March and April, as directed, may procure head Lettuce from 
some of their strongest plants, by transplanting them into rich ground as 
goon as they are an inch or two in height, and the remainder, if left thin in 
the beds, may produce small heads, by stirring the earth around them with 
a small hoe, or weeding hook ; these are as good for family use as larger 
heads, and those persons who are fond of Lettuce may raise such through- 
out the summer ; but market gardeners seldom attempt it, unless they 
have a tract of moist, loamy soil, peculiarly adapted to the growth of head 
Lettuce, in any thing like a propitious season 
