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LETTUCE , known botanically as Lactuca saliva (nat. ord. See also:Compositae), a See also:hardy See also:annual, highly esteemed as a See also:salad plant. The See also:London See also:market-gardeners make preparation for the first See also:main See also:crop of See also:Cos lettuces in the open ground See also:early in See also:August, a See also:frame being set on a shallow hotbed, and, the stimulus of See also:heat not being required, this is allowed to subside till the first See also:week in See also:October, when the See also:soil, consisting of See also:leaf-See also:mould mixed with a little See also:sand, is put on 6 or 7 in. thick, so that the See also:surface is within 41 in. of the sashes. The best See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for See also:sowing is found to be about the r rth of October, one of the best varieties being Lobjoits See also:Green Cos. When the seeds begin to germinate the sashes are See also:drawn quite off in favourable See also:weather during the See also:day, and put on, but tilted, at See also:night in wet weather. Very little watering is required, and the aim should be to keep the See also:plants gently moving till the days begin to lengthen. In See also:January a more active growth is encouraged, and in mild winters a considerable extent of the planting out is done, but in private gardens the preferable time would be See also:February. The ground should be See also:light and See also:rich, and well manured below, and the plants put out at 1 ft. apart each way with the dibble. Frequent stirring of the ground with the See also:- HOE (through Fr. houe from O.H.G. houwd, mod. Ger. Haue; the root is seen in " hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from " hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g. Morthoe, Luton Hoo, the Hoe at Plymouth, &c. ; this is t
- HOE, RICHARD MARCH (1812-1886)
hoe greatly encourages the growth of the plants. A second sowing should be made about the 5th of See also:November, and a third in frames about the end of January or beginning of February. In See also:March a sowing may be made in some warm situation out of doors; successional sowings may be made in the open border about every third or See also:fourth week till August, about the See also:middle of which See also:month a crop of See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown Cos, Hardy See also:Hammersmith or Hardy See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Cos should be sown, the latter being the most reliable in a severe See also:winter. These plants may be put out early in October on the sides of ridges facing the See also:south or at the front of a south See also:wall, beyond the reach of drops from the copings, being planted 6 or 8 in. apart. See also:Young lettuce plants should be thinned out in the See also:seed-beds before they See also:crowd or draw each other, and transplanted as soon as possible after two or three leaves are formed. Some cultivators prefer that the summer crops should not be transplanted, but sown where they are to stand, the plants being merely thinned out; but transplanting checks the See also:running to seed, and makes the most of the ground.
For a winter See also:supply by See also:gentle forcing, the Hardy See also:Hammer-See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith and Brown Dutch See also:Cabbage lettuces, and the Brown Cos and Green See also:Paris Cos lettuces, should be sown about the middle of August and in the beginning of See also:September, in rich light soil, the plants being pricked out 3 in. apart in a prepared See also:bed, as soon as the first two leaves are fully formed. About the middle of October the plants should be taken up carefully with balls attached to the roots, and should be placed in a mild hotbed of well-prepared dung (about 55°) covered about 1 ft. deep with a compost of sandy See also:peat, leaf-mould and a little well-decomposed manure. The Cos and Brown Dutch varieties should be planted about 9 in. apart. c lve plenty of See also:air when the weather permits, and protect from See also:- FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning " to freeze," Dutch, vriezcn, Ger. frieren; the Indo-European root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire, to itch, burn, pruna, burning coal, Sans
- FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD (1810–1877)
frost. For winter See also:work Stanstead See also:Park Cabbage Lettuce is greatly favoured now by London market-gardeners, as it stands the winter well. See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's Immense is another See also:good variety, while All the See also:Year See also:Round may be sown for almost any See also:season, but is better perhaps for summer crops.
There are two races of the lettuce, the Cos lettuce, with erect oblong heads, and the Cabbage lettuce, with round or spreading heads,—the former generally crisp, the latter soft and flabby in texture. Some of the best lettuces for See also:general purposes of the two classes are the following:
Cos: White Paris Cos, best for summer; Green Paris Cos, hardier than the white; Brown Cos, Lobjoits Green Cos, one of the hardiest and best for winter; Hardy White Cos.
Cabbage: Hammersmith Hardy Green: Stanstead Park, very hardy, good for winter; Tom Thumb; Brown Dutch; Neapolitan, best for summer; All the Year Round; See also:Golden Sall, good for forcing in private establishments.
Lactuca virosa, the strong-scented lettuce, contains an See also:alkaloid which has the See also:power of dilating the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil and may possibly be identical with hyoscyamine, though this point is as yet not determined. No variety of lettuce is now used for any medicinalpurpose, though there is probably some slight See also:foundation for the belief that the lettuce has faint narcotic properties. LEUCADIA, the See also:ancient name of one of the Ionian Islands, now See also:Santa Maura (q.v.), and of its See also:chief See also:town (Hamaxichi). LEUCIPPUS, See also:Greek philosopher, See also:born at See also:Miletus (or Elea), founder of the Atomistic theory, contemporary of See also:Zeno, See also:Empedocles and Anaxagoras. His fame was so completely over-shadowed by that of See also:Democritus, who subsequently See also:developed the theory into a See also:system, that his very existence was denied by See also:Epicurus (Diog. Laert. x. 7), followed in See also:modern times by E. Rohde. Epicurus, however, distinguishes Leucippus from Democritus, and See also:Aristotle and See also:Theophrastus expressly See also:credit him with the invention of Atomism. There seems, therefore, no See also:reason to doubt his existence, although nothing is known of his See also:life, and even his birthplace is uncertain. Between Leucippus and Democritus there is an See also:interval of at least See also:forty years; accordingly, while the beginnings of Atomism are closely connected with the doctrines of the Eleatics, the system as developed by Democritus is conditioned by the sophistical views of his time, especially those of See also:Protagoras. While Leucippus's notion of Being agreed generally with that of the Eleatics, he postulated its See also:plurality (atoms) and See also:motion, and the reality of not-Being (the void) in which his atoms moved.
See DEMOCanTus. On the Rohde-Diels controversy as to the existence of Leucippus, see F. See also:Lortzing in See also:Bursian's Jahresbericht, vol. cxvi. (1904); also J. See also:Burnet, Early Greek See also:Philosophy (1892).
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