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Cartltca SCltUKt. Natural Order: Composite—Aster Family. 
> 1 NE of the most common of vegetables, Lettuce is also among 
the first to appear on the table in spring, when man as well as 
beast hungers for the green things of the field. Of the many 
kinds, each puts forward some especial claim to our attention, 
from the loose, curled leaves of the one, to the close, compact 
heads of the other; but crisp and tender they must be, to 
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--''form the appetizing salads of which they are the chief ingredient. 
ST) They are of very ancient cultivation, as they are mentioned by several 
Latin authors, and the selling of lettuce formed the occupation of people 
? those days as now in our own. Lettuce dealers were called Lactu- 
IlkD C arius, though they probably sold other vegetables. After the season 
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_)is over, the plants are allowed to go to seed. The stalk is about two 
feet high, filled with a milky juice; and the flowers are a pale yellow, 
numerous, but rather small in size. 
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HAVE not from your eyes that gentleness 
And show of love, as I was wont to have. 
— Shakespeare. 
Y OUR coldness I heed not, your frown I defy; 
Your affection I need not —the time has gone by, 
When a blush or a smile on that cheek could beguile 
My soul from its safety, with witchery’s smile. 
— Mrs. Osgood. 
TTIS heart was all on honor bent, 
He could not stoop to love; 
No lady in the land had power 
His frozen heart to move. 
— Anonymous. 
\fOUR breast is heaped like mountain snows 
1 Your cheek is like a blushing rose, 
Your eyes are black as ripened sloes, 
Like diamonds do they glitter. 
N OT the basilisk 
More deadly to the sight, than is to me 
The cool, ingenious eye of frozen kindness. 
— Gay. 
I do not flatter like a fool — 
The diamond is a cutting tool, 
The rose is thorny, snow is cool, 
And sloes are very bitter. 
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