The repast set apart by custom for the dead consisted of Lettuces and Beans.
The old poets prescribed a bed of Lettuce for those who were unable to obtain repose; and Pliny states that Lettuces of all descriptions were thought to cause sleep.
Lettuces may be now planted out, and other seed sown for future use.
Sow lettuce and small salad and radishes; also transplant lettuces to situations to stand till the spring.
First we watered thelettuces we had transplanted, and transplanted more.
The children were delighted to find ladybirds on the lettuces they were transplanting, and we also noticed how the cherries were ripening.
The children wanted lettucesfrom their own garden, but the grass was too wet, so we pretended.
Then, as we had permission to come again, we took some of our lettuces to the chickens.
If it rains and you cannot gather the lettuces you have grown from seed, you take refuge in happy pretence; if it clears and the sun calls you out of doors, you take your doll-babies for their walk.
Lettuces we may eat, but without the oil that soothes and the vinegar that interests, and if you add salt to them you will be thirsty, and you must never drink.
Papa, who hasn't tried it yet, is perfectly willing, and if we live chiefly on nuts and lettuces we shall hardly want any money at all.
Endive or large cabbage-lettuces may be used instead of cabbage, but care must be taken to drain off all the water.
Here also were lettuces, and beneath the lettuces gold.
He lifted it and there met his eye a layer of lettucesneatly packed.
Celery may be transplanted, winter spinach may be sown, lettuces may be planted out, coleworts may be sown.
Lettuces may now be planted in frames, or in very warm borders, for winter use.
Do not tie your lettuces up too tightly, and when you stick your peas put in the stick in a slanting direction.
The cabbages had a bulky, prosperous appearance; the carrots looked bright and gay; and the lettuceslounged in line with an air of careless indolence.
One tattered harridan, a century old, was sheltering three spare-looking lettuces beneath an umbrella of pink silk, shockingly split and stained.
The swelling hearts of the lettuces were now gleaming brightly, the scales of greenery showed forth with wondrous vigour, the carrots glowed blood-red, the turnips shone as if incandescent in the triumphant radiance of the sun.
People passing some huge mountain of cos or cabbage lettuces often heard a muffled sound of chatter coming from it.
Fresh lettuce leaves make a capital trap, but lettuces in January or February are about as scarce as mushrooms themselves.
As the lettuces are planted out upon the benches there is very little drip from them, hence the sunken beds are well enough.
The chicken or lobster should be cut in small thick pieces (not sliced) and placed, with small quarters of lettuces and hard eggs quartered, alternately, so as to fill the dish in a varied form.
The cabbage lettuces must be rather highly seasoned when put in the pan to stew.
The little rabbits smiled sweetly in their sleep under the shower of grass; they did not awake because the lettuces had been so soporific.
First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes; And then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.
He said that he was in the habit of coming to the garden with his father to get lettuces for their Sunday dinner.
They are just out of the pot," beamed she, "and the lettuces were growing not five min'ts ago.
In the early stages seeds of carrots and radishes are sown simultaneously on the same beds, and over them young lettucesthat have been raised in advance are planted.
Sow broccoli and kidney-beans both in the second and in the last week, and lettuces and small salads twice or thrice during the month; sow all herbs, if not done last month.
Thus with the genial warmth and moisture of the hotbeds, all crops grow rapidly, but the radishes mature first, then the lettuces are taken off in due course, thus leaving the beds to finish up with the carrots by themselves.
Spinach, corn salad, radishes and carrots are the favourite crops for sowing between others such as lettuces and cauliflowers.
Protect broccoli as it becomes fit for use, or remove to a dry shed or cellar; lettuces and endive, which are best planted in frames; and parsley in frames so as to be accessible.
Sow small salading and radishes in the first week, and lettuces in frames on a shallow hotbed for planting out in spring.
In some places Lettuces stand out the winter without covering, and turn in early in the spring.
In any and every case the finest Lettuces are obtained by sowing in the open ground, and leaving the plants to finish in the seed-bed without being transplanted.
The broad-leaved sorts are not so well adapted for salads as for stews, and they take the place of Lettuces when the latter are not available for soups and ragoûts.
Lettuces do not force well; but as they are so constantly in demand, it is a matter of importance to grow them in every possible way.
They will form fine hearts, and be valued at a time when Lettuces are scarce.
The market grower is still accustomed to tie Lettuces because they are more easily packed and travel better when tied, but when tying is practised it need not be done until one or two days before the Lettuces are cut.
The larger Cabbage Lettuces will prove useful if sown now.
Certainly, after tying, the hearts soon rot if not quickly eaten; and Lettuces as fine as can be desired may now be grown without tying, the close-hearting sorts being very much improved in that respect.
Endive== is not generally wanted while good Lettuces abound, but it takes the place of Lettuce in autumn and winter, when the more delicate vegetable is scarce.
As the Lettuces themselves serve the purpose of traps, the Snails and Slugs congregated about them may, towards evening, be caught and destroyed.
Seed may, however, be sown at any time from February to October, but only those who are accustomed to the plant should trouble to secure summer crops; when Lettuces are plentiful Corn Salad is seldom required.
We found her awfully busy, making pies and jellies, and her two sisters were hurrying about with great hams and pairs of chickens and rounds of cold beef and lettuces and pickled salmon and trays of crockery and glasses.
It was very nice tea, with lettuces and cold meat and three kinds of jam, as well as cake, and new bread, which we are not allowed at home.
They got away somehow, and before they were caught next day they had eaten a good many lettuces and other things.
When the calm night was illumined, but not too brightly, by the moon and stars, the leveret would venture far away from her retreat to visit a cottage garden where the young lettuces were crisp and tender.
Her depredations among the carrots andlettuces were scarcely such as to deserve punishment.
Besides these, we give them, two or three times a day, a parcel of lettuces out of the garden.
I should think that the cabbages or lettuces perform half the work of keeping and fatting my geese; and these are things that really cost nothing.
That garden has, in the month of July, a wagon-load, at least, of lettucesand cabbages to throw away.
We give them such as are going to seed generally; but the better the lettuces are, the better the geese.
I once saw not less than three rods of ground, in a garden of this sort, with lettuces all bearing seed.
THE little rabbits smiled sweetly in their sleep under the shower of grass; they did not awake because the lettuces had been so soporific.
FIRST he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes; AND then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.
Then there will belettuces and cucumbers, something worth while; though there won't be so many to enjoy them as last spring, I'm thinking.
All of Saint Germain has tasted ourlettuces and our young carrots.
Oranges are at their best in Sicily in the spring and lettuces are in season.
The audience understand this and know that lettuces are appropriate for supper because they contain some narcotic, so that a raw lettuce is often eaten after dinner.
There were plates withlettuces cut up, bread and wine, oil and vinegar and oranges, all real.
Only such varieties as are called heading lettuces will head.
A cloudy day is far better than a bright sunny one because bright sun is too strong for little lettuceswhich have been disturbed from their places and put into new ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lettuces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
