lettuce-seeds

Updated: May 16, 2025

There were lettuce-seeds, and radish-seeds, flax-seeds and grains of rice, fine seeds of flowers and small seeds of grass, all mixed and mingled till no two alike lay together. Hans had never seen so many seeds in all his life before; and when he had looked at them the king bade him sort them, each kind to itself.

Maud Lindsay - The Story-teller

While I write, I hear an oriole gay as in June, and the plaintive may-be of the goldfinch tells me he is stealing my lettuce-seeds. I know not what the experience of others may have been, but the only bird I have ever hard sing in the night has been the chip-bird. I should say he sang about as often during the darkness as cocks crow. One can hardly help fancying that he sings in his dreams.

James Russell Lowell - My Garden Acquaintance