Bloody Cos Database of Speckled Varieities.xlsx

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3	Flashy Butter Oak		Modern - 2005. First of Frank Morton’s flashy oak leaf types	Frank Morton. Released first by his Fedco friends in 2005	Romaine. Oakleaf/butter gem. ’		Blend of ‘Flashy Troutback’ and ‘Emerald Oak
4	Flashy Lightning Butter Oak	Flashy Lightning (Baker Creek)	Modern	Frank Morton	First flashes into a unique mini-head, then folds into a dense butter-heart before bolting
5	Flashy Troutback	Forellenschluss, Freckles	Modern. Selected from Forellenschluss/Freckles	‘Our thanks to Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed for developing this variety. Refined selection of Freckles’. ‘Our own selection derived from the variable cos heirloom ‘Forellenschluse’’	Blanched hearts of mature plants look like ‘Castlefranco’ chicory. Upright growth, unique early coloring, and crisp texture make this a prime candidate for baby cut salad		From Wild Garden Seed, this is a selected form of Forellenschluss
6	Forellenschluss	Flashy Troutback, Freckles	William Woys Weaver traced 'Forellenschluss' back to 1793; it was a dwarf variety of ‘Spotted Aleppo’ developed in Germany.	Austrian	Romaine	Can stand summer heat better than most
7	Flashy Butter Gem		Modern. Newest	Latest of the ‘flashy’ red splashed series. Frank Morton	Little Gem-like butter-cos that forms a fat short-leafed football of a lettuce
8	Jester		Modern.	Frank Morton	Crispleaf type can be harvested at the open head stage, or later as a semi-tight pink-hearted blanched head		Triple cross between Reine d’ Glaces, Merlot, and Flashy Troutback
9	Joker		Modern	Frank Morton	First cousin to 'Jester', but more extreme. Forms a tighter head of deeply savoyed leaves. Bold red splashes and large-toothed margins with coarse crenation. Thick leaves have a firm, crisp texture and terrific flavor.
10	Total Clown		2016	Frank Morton. Volunteer	Red streaked and splashed romaine heads, some with rose-pink hearts		Volunteer
11	Mayan Jaguar		Modern	Frank Morton	Cos. Bigger framed than Leopard
12	Leopard		Modern	Frank Morton	Smaller framed midi-sized romaine with extra fancy crisping of the leaf margins	High downy mildew resistance
13	Sanguine Ameliore		Nineteenth century French variety	Introduced into America by C C Morse in 1906 with the name ‘Strawberry Cabbage Lettuce'	Butterhead	Holds well through winter under cover
14	Speckled	Speckles	1799	Originally a Dutch variety brought from the Netherlands to Ontario, Canada by Mennonite immigrant Urias Martin .Old Amish variety	Loose leaf (Baker Creek) or butterhead
15	Speckles	Speckled?			A cross between a green butterhead and Forellenschluss romaine (http://www.grow-it-organically.com/lettuce-varieties.html)
16	Speckled Amish			Said to have originated in Lancaster County, PA in the 1800s and spread wide by Seed Savers Exchange.	Butterhead			Loved by slugs
17	Mottistone	Similar to Speckles (http://www.grow-it-organically.com/lettuce-varieties.html)	Modern		Summer crisp/Batavian
18	Bloody Warrior			Ex-commercial variety donated by M Ward in 2007	Cos	Can be planted out under cover for overwintering
19	Tennis Ball	Capuchin	17th century	Grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. First sold by American seedsmen late in 18th century	Butterhead	Very early or late for autumn and winter use
20	Brown Dutch			Most frequently planted lettuce by Jefferson at Monticello between 1809 and 1824. Mentioned as early as 1731 by British botanist Stephen Switzer	Loose headed. Large floppy blistered outer leaves	Very early or late for autumn and winter use
21	Spotted Aleppo	Bloody Cos	Stephen Switzer had Aleppo lettuce in stock in 1727	Philadelphia seedsman Bernard MacMahon sold this 18th century Romaine lettuce in 1804	Short Romaine. Loose headed	Very early or late for autumn and winter use
22	Camo Oakheart Mix		Modern	Began with a ‘Deer Tongue’ that went camo with red spots and a bronze overcast after an unplanned mating with a red-to-heart romaine, only to be made oakish by a chance encounter with Green Oakheart.					h
23	Big Flame Romaine Mix		Modern	Red-to-heart breeding stock crossed into (big) ‘Crisp Mint’ and ‘Plato II’ romaines
24	Dubya Dapple Density		Modern, now discontinued		‘The tightest, tiniest, most glossy, two-toned, wavy-margined mini-romaine I've ever seen. Half the size of a 'Winter Density', and maybe twice as dense’
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