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LETTUCE LATE BUTTERHEADS THAT RESIST 

 MIDSUMMER HEAT 



THE connecting link between the early butterheads 

 and those on which planters may depend to form heads 

 as late as the season will permit is California Cream Butter. 

 This is one of the most dependable of all lettuces, al- 

 ways forming handsome, solid heads of exceptional qual- 

 ity in sixty-five to seventy days from date of planting. 

 From seeds sown end of April it will furnish delicious 

 salad until middle of July, when All Seasons, as shown 

 above, will be in its prime. Many call this the Black 

 Seeded Deacon and it is surely superior to old Deacon in 

 heat-resisting qualities. All Seasons differs from all 

 other sorts suggested so far by being of a distinctly uni- 

 form shade of deep green. Ready in seventy-five days. 



Speckled Dutch Butter is valuable because it matures 

 more slowly. Thus, when nearly all the heads in a row 

 of All Seasons are ready, only a few of Speckled Dutch 

 Butter sown at the same time will have reached full size. 

 The latest of this group is Brown Dutch, a dark green sort, 

 heavily shaded with dark brown tints which denotes both 

 heat and frost resistance. A week later than All Seasons. 



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