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R. d: J. Farquhar & Co., Seed Merchants. Boston. 



LETTUCE. {Lattich Salat.) 



TTie Lettuce is the best vegetable of the salad kind grown in the open air. It thrives best in a light, 

 ■very rich, moist soil, with a dry sub-stratum, but does well in common garden soil enriched with rotted 

 manure. For first crop sow in gentle heat in February, and transplant'to ten inches apart. For a sum- 

 mer supply, sow thinly in shallow drills, eighteen inches apart, and transplant, or thin out to a foot 



apaxt between the plants. Sowings may be made from April to the end of August 

 ffives about four thousand plants.^ 



One ounce of seed 



tex>-isball lettuce: w. s. forcixg. ha>-; 



'White Seeded Tennisball. For forcing. Forms fine, perfect 

 heads; very crisp aud tender. The true strain, on wliich grow- 

 ers for Boston market rely exclusively for heading under glass, 



White Seeded Tennisball, imported. Very early; tender, and 

 excellent for garden crop, 



Black Seeded Tennisball. One of the best for open-air culture ; 

 forms a line head ; compact, crisp and tender, .... 



Boston Fine Curled. Very early; leaves beautifully curled; 

 attractive on table, 



Hanson. Heads very large ; solid ; tender ; flavor fine ; stands sum- 

 mer heat well 



All-the-year-Romid. A very hardy, compact cabbage-lettuce with 

 close heads 



Buttercup. Eemarkably tender and delicate i very solid heading ; 

 leaves beautiful, 



Defiance. Large, close heading cabbage variety, with tender, crisp, 

 icy leares of fine quality 



Early Curled Simpson. Heads large ; very tender : excellent for 

 lirst crop, 



White Summer Cabbage. Larse ; unusually tender aud keeps 



well, ..:.... 



Drumhead. Favorite old variety, with large, crisp heads, 

 Deacon. Unsurpassed variety : heads large, compact, and almost 



every leaf tender, without bitter taste, 



Hendersons New York. New; of unusual size and solidity; 



centre white; crisp, tender and excellent, . . . . 



Satisfaction. No variety excels this as a fine, summer, head 



lettuce, 



Tomhannock. Splendid for early cutting. Outer leaves glossy 



bronze, crisp and tender quality, 



American Gathering. Suitable for picking when young. Heads 



solid and crisp; tips of the leaves marked with red. 

 Trocadero. One of the finest head or cabbage lettuces; heads 



large aud close. Outer leaves light green edged with red ; 



centre white, tender and delicious 



Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage. One of the largest lettuces. 



with very solid head six inches in diameter. Quality tender, 



crisp, and free from bitterness 



Golden Head. Heads large and firm ; outer leaves golden yellow 



speckled with red ; inner leaves white and crisp, 

 Brown Dutch. Very hardy ; best for very early out-of-doors crop. 



Blood Red. Very ornamental: solid heading 



Trout, or Spotted. The most tender lettuce on the list ; leaves 



spotted with red. 



Paris Cos, or Romain. Of upright growth ; very tender, . 



ox LETTUCE. 



Perpkt. Peroz. 



.05 

 .05 

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 .05 

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 .05 

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.40 

 .15 

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 .25 

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 .15 

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 .15 

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.15 

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.05 .15 



.05 .20 



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.05 .20 



.05 



40 



Per lb. 



84.00 



2.00 



3.00 



2.50 



2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



2.00 

 2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



1.50 



2.00 



2.00 



4.00 



.05 



.20 



2.00 



.10 

 .(•5 

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.35 

 .25 

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3.50 



2.00 

 3.00 



.10 

 .05 



.40 



.15 



4.00 



2.00 



Novelties in Colored Insert. 



