ith the exception of its paler color, it resembles the Neapolitan. It
is one of the best of all varieties for summer cultivation.

VICTORIA OR RED-BORDERED. _Vil._

An excellent early and hardy variety. The head is of medium size, tinted
or washed with red at the top, round and regular in form, and
comparatively solid; leaves large, yellowish-green, wrinkled, and
blistered. If grown in summer, the plants measure eight or nine inches
in diameter, and weigh four ounces. In cool weather, the plants attain a
diameter of twelve inches, and weigh from ten to twelve ounces; seeds
white.

The Victoria Lettuce is larger than the Tennis-ball, heads freely, and
is crisp and well flavored. When sown in summer, it soon runs to flower;
but, in cool weather, the heads are well retained.

WHITE GOTTE (BLACK-SEEDED). _Vil._

A small, low-growing, yellowish-green Cabbage Lettuce, with a
comparatively loose head. The plants rarely measure more than six inches
in their full diameter, or weigh above four ounces.

It is one of the earliest of all the lettuces, crisp, of good flavor,
and well adapted for forcing or for frame culture. Besides the
distinction in the color of the seeds, it differs from the White-seeded
White Gotte in its smaller and more loosely formed heads.

WHITE GOTTE (WHITE-SEEDED). _Vil._

White Tennis-ball.

This variety has a small, long, firm, and close head; and is uniformly
of a yellowish-green color. The outer leaves are small, light
greenish-yellow, waved on the borders, and prominently blistered. The
plant is of small dimensions; rarely measuring more than six or seven
inches in diameter, or weighing above three ounces. The variety is
early, crisp, and well flavored, but soon runs to seed, and is much
better adapted for growing in winter, or for forcing, than for
cultivation in the summer months.

WHITE SILESIAN, OR WHITE BATAVIAN. _Vil._

Drumhead Cabbage. Large Drumhead. Spanish.

One of the largest of the Cabbage lettuces. Head golden-green, tinted
with brownish-red about the top, regularly but not compactly formed. The
outer leaves are large and broad, yellowish-green, bordered with brown,
wrinkled, and coarsely blistered. When well grown, the entire diameter
of the plant is about eighteen inches, and its weight twenty ounces. The
seeds are white.

This variety appears to be adapted to all seasons. It is hardy, retains
its head well, withstands heat and drought, blanches white and crisp,