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Definition of Boston lettuce
1. Noun. Lettuce with relatively soft leaves.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boston Lettuce
Literary usage of Boston lettuce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1902)
"The headed varieties are called boston lettuce all over the country, for the
market gardeners of Boston and vicinity have done more than any others to bring ..."
2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1902)
"The headed varieties are called boston lettuce all over the country, for the
market gardeners of Boston and vicinity have done more than any others to bring ..."
3. The Malone Cook Book by Mrs George Hawkins (1917)
"Take heart heads of boston lettuce, wash thoroughly and drain. Cut each head in
quarters not cutting quite through ..."
4. Farm and Forest edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"The headed varieties are called boston lettuce all over the country, for the
market gardeners of Boston and vicinity have done more than any others to bring ..."
5. How to Make School Gardens: A Manual for Teachers and Pupils by Herbert Daniel Hemenway (1903)
"Set out one row of Hartford Bronzed Head Lettuce plants seven feet from north
end, and one row Big boston lettuce plants four feet from south end, ..."
6. Putnam's Minute-a-day English: For Busy People by Edwin Hamlin Carr (1921)
"Apply the sounds to Boston (let'is) lettuce. Let us buy some boston lettuce.
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