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BOSTON MARKET LETTUCE. 



LETTUCE.— Head Varieties. 



2ARIS WHITE COS LETTUCE. 



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liar ge White Summer Cabbage. One of the very best head Lettuces for summer 

 that we know of. The heads are of good size, close and well formed. It is a 

 splendid market variety-. 5 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. % lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



ALL THE YEAR ROUND. A hardy, crisp eating and compact growing variety, 

 with small, close heads of a dark green color; an excellent summer Lettuce, and 

 valuable for forcing. 5 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. )4 lb. ; SI. 50 lb. 



FORCING VARIETIES. 



BOSTON MARKET. This is an improved variety of the Tennis Ball, and attains 

 a larger size. It grows very compact, is white and crisp, and is one of the very 

 best varieties for forcing. (See cut.) 10c. pkt. ; 20c. oz. ; 50c. )£ lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



TENNIS BALL BLACK-SEEDED. A favorite forcing variety, and, as the name 

 indicates, forming a hard head. It makes but few outer leaves, and for this rea- 

 son can be planted quite closely under glass — from sis to seven inches apart. It 

 is the variety so largely used in our hot-beds and forcing pits, and in green-houses. 

 5 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. % lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



WHEELER'S TOM THUMB. A small, but very sweet forcing variety. 10 cts. pkt.; 

 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. % lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



COS OR ROMAINE LETTUCE. 



PARIS WHITE COS. The Cos Lettuce differs entirely in shape from the other 

 varieties, the head being elongated and of conical form, eight or nine inches in 

 height, and five or six inches in diameter. The outer coloring of this variety is 

 yellowish green. To be had in perfection it requires to be tied up to insure its 

 blanching. Millions of this variety are annually grown to supply the markets of 

 London alone. (-See cut.) 10 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 60 cts. y A lb. ; $2.00 lb. 



CELERY LETTUCE "TRIANON." (See Novelties, page 11J 25 cts. pkt.; 50 cts. oz. ; 

 $1.50 % lb. ; $5.00 lb. 



LETTUCE— Curled Varieties. 



EARLY CURLED SIMPSON. Properly speaking it does not head, but forms a close, 

 compact mass of leaves, of a yellowish shade of green, which are quite curly. This 

 peculiarity enables it to mature quicker than varieties that form firm heads, and gives 

 it its great desideratum — earliness. It is the kind that is planted in cold frames almost 

 exclusively, and it is also largely grown as an early open air variety between a Cabbage 

 crop. 10 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. 14 lb. ; $1 .50 lb. 



BLACK-SEEDED SIMPSON. Like the Curled Simpson this variety does not properly 

 form a head ; but it differs from that variety in being much lighter in color, the leaves 

 being nearly white and attaining nearly double the size of the Curled Simpson. It stands 

 the summer heat splendidly, while it is equally suited for forcing. It may not, however, 

 on account of its large size, prove under some circumstances as profitable as a strictly 

 forcing kind, such as, for instance, the Boston Market, or Tennis Ball. (See cut.) 10 cts. 

 .pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. ^ lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



BOSTON CURLED. A variety of superior quality, very symmetrical and ornamental in 

 growth. {See cut.) 5 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. \i lb. ; $1.50 11). 



GREEN FRINGED OR CALIFORNIA CURLED. ' This ornamental sort is of a very 

 delicate and peculiar shade of green, the inner parts of the leaves white, with edges 

 beautifully cut and fringed. (See cut.) 5 cts. pkt. ; 20 cts. oz. ; 50 cts. % lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



Oak-Leaved. A distinct variety, due to the peculiar outline of the leaves, which are shaped 

 like those of the oak. The heads are compact, crisp and tender, and it is largely free/j 

 from that bitter taste peculiar to so many kinds of Lettuce. (See cut.) 10 cts. p^t/f . 

 $1.50 lb. 



BLACK-SEEDED SIMPSON LETTUCE. 



BOSTON CURLED LETTUCE. 



GREEN FRINGED LETTUCE. 



OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. 



In view of a general tendency in the seed trade to show greatly exag- 

 gerated representations of flowers, fruits and vegetables, we have for the last 

 two years secured the services of a most competent artist, who has been ex- 

 clusively engaged in producing truthful and life-like sketches of the various 

 articles offered in this Catalogue. 



OAK-LKAVED LETTUCE 



The Succession Cabbages were the finest I ever saw. Fully 95 out of every 100 made good, large heads. Could cut hundreds that weighed 12 to IS lbs. per head 

 trimmed close. One speciine» weighed 19 lbs John Arnold, Cedar Eapids, la., October 6th, 1889. 



Last spring I bought a dollar's worth of your Lima Bush Beaas I have keen more than satisfied with the result. The yield has been beyond my anticipations. 

 — Ferdinand Hoffmann, Stockbridge, Mass., Octeber 7th, 1889. 



