a) Butterhead: Also known as Boston, Bibb, Buttercrunch, or Limestone lettuce. This is a lettuce with outstanding sweet flavour and smooth, buttery consistency of the leaves.

b) Crisphead: Also known as the familiar iceberg, this is amazingly one of the toughest varieties of lettuce to grow in the home garden. It requires a long growing season without severe freezes and bolts quickly and becomes bitter in warmer weather.

c) French Batavian: Also known as Batavian, Summer Batavian, Loosehead, and French Crisp, these lettuces start off with loose leaves that later form loosely formed heads.

d) Looseleaf: Easy to grow with a variety of colours, textures, flavours, and leaf shapes, there is a place for looseleaf lettuces in every garden.

e) Romaine: Other names for this lettuce are Cos, Roman, and Manchester lettuce. Romaine is a nutritious deep green, long-leaved, mildly bitter lettuce with crisp mid ribs.

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