n autumn, or in cool, moist weather, the plants attain a diameter
of nearly ten inches, and weigh from six to eight ounces; but
summer-grown specimens are much smaller, rarely measuring more than six
or seven inches in diameter, or weighing above three or four ounces. In
warm, dry weather, it soon runs to seed.

ICE CABBAGE. _Trans._

This variety belongs to the division of the Silesian or Batavian
lettuces, and must not be confounded with the White Cos. The leaves are
of a light shining green, blistered on the surface, much undulated, and
slightly jagged on the edges, nearly erect, eight inches long, and five
or six inches broad; the outer leaves spread a little at the top, but
grow close at the heart. It blanches without tying up, and becomes
white, crisp, and tender.

The Ice Cabbage Lettuce comes into use with the White Silesian, from
which it differs, as it also does from any other of its class, in being
much more curled, having a lucid, sparkling surface (whence probably its
name), and not turning in so much at the heart. It lasts as long in crop
as the White Silesian.

IMPERIAL HEAD.

Turkey Cabbage. Union.

A large and excellent variety, but inferior to the Versailles or the Ice
Cabbage. Head large, regular, a little oblong, of a dull, pale-green
color, and not compactly formed; the outside leaves are large, rounded,
undulated or waved on the borders, thin in texture, and of a soiled or
tarnished light-green color; diameter fourteen inches; weight twelve to
fifteen ounces; seeds white.

This is a crisp and tender lettuce, though sometimes slightly bitter. It
is not early, and soon shoots up to seed; but is quite hardy, and well
adapted for winter cultivation.

The Imperial Head, or Imperial Cabbage Lettuce, with white seeds, was at
one period more generally cultivated in small gardens than any other
variety; and though some of the recently introduced sorts excel it, not
only in size, but in tender consistency and flavor, the Imperial is
still extensively cultivated and much esteemed.

With the exception of the color of its seeds, it resembles the Turkey
Cabbage.

INDIA.

Large India.

Head large, moderately compact; leaves large, with coarse and hard
mid-ribs and veins. Its recommendation is its remarkable adaptedness to
summer culture; as it withstands heat and drought, and retains its head
to a remarkable degree before running to seed. For the table, it is
inferior to many other sorts; a