The listing, 100 organic seeds, Romaine lettuce, Parris island has ended.
very easy to grow, keep this watered and side mulch with compost for beautiful sweet heads of crunchy lettuce! you get 100 seeds for 100 heads of lettuce! can be cut to base and allowed to regrow!
try this in a salad with poppyseed dressing, mandarin oranges & sunflower seeds!
here is some info I found!
Parris Island Cos (Romaine, Cos)
66 days — The heads are uniform in size, tall and erect with interiors that are pale-green to cream. The outer leaves are dark, gray-green in color. Named after the island off of South Carolina.
Bred by Clemson College's Agricultural Experimental Station, Charleston, South Carolina. It was released in 1951 by the Ferry-Morse Seed Company.
Q. What is "Cos" and "Romaine" lettuce?
A. It is a type of lettuce with thick leaves on erect plants. Most sources trace the origins of the word to the Greek island of Cos. It is from this island that lettuce is presumed to have been introduced. Others trace it to the Arabic word for lettuce, خس khus.
Another thought is that it reached the West via Rome. In Italian it is called Lattuga romana and in French Laitue romaine. Romaine is the common term in American English.