LETTUCE. 
Those who have seen lettuce 
only on the table, or growing in 
the early spring garden or in the 
green-house, will feel like laughing 
V at the idea of lettuces flying ! 
Yet they do fly. At least their 
seeds do. 
Sometimes lettuces look like rosettes 
I jik growing out of the ground, and some- 
times they look like little cab- 
bages. But that is only the 
leaves. 
If lettuces are let alone and 
not picked, in time they will 
a go to seed"; a stalk will grow 
up from the middle, with small 
leaves on it and a great many 
little flower heads that look 
somewhat like tiny dandelions. 
These flower heads are made 
like those of the dandelion or 
thistle. 
The lettuce has no prickles, 
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Garden lettuce gone to seed. 
