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CABBAGE LETTUCES. 
No. 1. BERLIN, VIL. 
Synonyms: All the Year Round, b.s., Vil., 784, Stb., °85; Berlin 
White Summer, Vil.; Black Seeded Satisfaction, Sib., 84; Black 
Seeded Yellow, Vil.; Bloomsdale Reliable, Land.,’84; Fine Imperial 
Cabbage, Vil.; Imperial Cabbage, Vil.; Leyden White Dutch Cab- 
bage, Vil.; Salamander, Hend.,’83; Royal or White Summer, Chis. 
trial; Satisfaction Black Seeded, Vil.; Teater Ben., 84; White Berlin 
Summer, Vil.,’84; Fr. Laitue blonde & gr.n., Vil.; ZL. blonde de Ber- 
lin, Vil., 85; L. blondede Tours, Vil.; L. royale 4 gr. n., Vil.; GER. 
Berliner gelber Kopf-Lattich, Vil.; Grosser gelber Berliner Lattich, 
Vil.; Grosser gelber Berliner Konigs Kopf. L. s. k. (d.), Dam. 
Young plant pale green, compact, sometimes wheel form; leaves 
roundish, apex retuse, outer ones nearly smooth, slightly waved, bor- 
ders of inner leaves somewhat undulate, surface more or less puffed 
and blistered ; midribs almost concealed in the compact foliage. 
Mature plant clear green, with a slight lustre, ten to twelve inches 
in diameter; head well defined, globular, compact, sometimes five 
inches in diameter, of which the inner leaves are pale yellowish 
green, or cream color, outer leaves of the head scarcely meeting at 
the top, usually folding back a little at the apex, growing nearly per- 
pendicular, and when the head is fully formed, disclosing rather con- 
spicuously their lower surfaces; leaves about the head very large, 
coarsely waved, slightly spreading, densely puffed and blistered; stem 
smooth, corymbose ; seeds black. 
A superior variety for early out-door culture. It heads well in 
dry weather, is slow in running to seed, and succeeds upon almost 
all soils. The flavor continues good until the flower stalk appears. 
Figured in Album de clichés. 
As All the Year Round, introduced in 1868, Gard. Chron., 1869, 
1850; as Fine Imperial Cabbage or Berlin, in the U.S. in 1854, 
Browne; Black seeded yellow of Thomp., 1850; Blonde de Berlin 
of Hort. Fran., 1824. 
No. 2. Buack SEEDED GorttTsE, Vil., ’85. 
Synonyms: Early White Spring, Burr.; /ine Larly White Spring, 
t1., °54; White Gotte, b.s., Vil.; Fr. Lattue gotte a graine noire, 
Vil., °85; L. roulette, Vil.; Gur. Friiher gelber kleiner stein Kopf- 
Lattich, Vil. 
This variety differs little from the Tennis Ball, w.s. except in the 
color of its seeds, The leaves are rather more waved and _ blistered, 
and the whole plant is a little smaller. The head is slightly de- 
pressed, never very firm; stem slender, smooth, corymbose; seeds 
black. 
Useful for frame culture, but of little value out of doors. Unless 
planted very early it heads poorly, and quickly runs to seed. 
Figured correctly in Dybowski, Traité de cult. pot., p. 316. 
No. 3. Buack SEEDED Simpson, Stb., °83, Thord., ’85. 
The young plant closely resembles that of Karly Simpson, though 
a shade paler in color. 
Mature plant twelve or fourteen inches in diameter, distinguish- 
