Johnson & Stokes' Specialties for Market Gardeners. 



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N6M L6TTUC6 FOR 1900 

 NOM C7.LLED Jj^g GOLDEN GHTE 



We distributed last spring 

 several thousand packages 

 of this wonderful new let- 

 tuce among our customers 

 for trial, offering §100 in cash 

 for the best names suggested 

 for it. Of the numerous 

 names sent in, the committee 

 decided on the name of 

 *• Qolden Gate " as the most 

 appropriate, and which had 

 been sent in by the first 

 seven persons named below, 

 to each of whom we imme- 

 diately sent our check for 

 first prize, also check for 

 $5.00 each to the ten last- 

 named persons who had seni 

 in what the committee con- 

 sidered the next best ten 



names. 



The Prize Winners. 



0. A. Wirthile, Orange Heights' 



Fla. 

 Frank Burnhara, Plaiston, N. H. 

 Mrs. A. Long, Danville, Ills. 

 Paul Romie, Salinas, Cal. 

 G. W. Ray, Portsmouth, R. I. 

 Emma Kiiuler, Wooster, Ohio. 

 AV. H. Garrison, Slidell, La. 

 H. 0. Osboi n, Bigelow, Mo. 

 S. D. Ferris, Peekskill, N. Y. 

 Wm. Edings, Edisto Island, S. C. 

 J. A. Loveli, Eagle, Col. 

 Adam Johnson, Hickman, Ky. 

 J. E. Swartwood, Sciota, Pa. 

 H. M. Cattell, Deerfield, N. J. 

 Mrs. A. Holler, Rock Hill, S. C. 

 Frank J. Krobath, Nyack, N. Y. 

 H. A. MiUiam, VPaukesha, Wis. 



HEAD OF GOLDEN GATE LETTUCE. 



Our attention was first attracted to this new lettuce, which will now be known as The Qolden 

 Gate, while visiting California in the summer of 1897. We secured seed from the originator, who proved 

 to be one of our market garden customers, and from which our present supply was grown. The immense 

 cream-yellow colored heads are the finest we have ever seen. It is the result of over twenty years' care- 

 ful selection by its experienced originator, and for spring and summer sowing will prove a boon to every 

 gardener who plants it. Read below what others say of it. 



Samples of Over i.ooo Unsolicited Testimonials Received from Nearly Every State 



FKOM ALASKA 



Elwood Hawkins, Montauk, Alaska, July 13, 1899, 

 writes: "Your New Lettuce (Golden Gate) has given me 

 immense satisfaction. It flourished well despite the fact of 

 its being grown almost under the Arctic Circle, where the 

 ground has been thajved only about four feet, the remainder 

 being frozen solid clear to bed rock. I sold what I could spare 

 in Dawson, receiving a large price for it. It was so cool, crisp, 

 tender and of such fine flavor that I could have sold barrels 

 of it had I had it." 



FKOM NORTH CAROLINA 



ROBX. E. Smith, Deerfield, N. C, Sept. 5, 1899, writes : 

 " In my twenty years' experience in market gardening I 

 have never seen the equal of this New Lettuce (Golden Gate). 

 It stands without a rival." 



FKOM OHIO 



Charles H. Brown, Hamilton, 0., July 22, 1899, writes: 

 "Your New Lettuce is the longest standing I have ever had 

 on the place, and I have been gardening for forty-two years. 

 I would also add that the lettuce is the handsomest, the 

 finest, the best cropper and best seller I have ever known." 



FROM LONG ISLAND 



E. Kendall, Babylon, L. I., N. Y., Aug. 20, 1899, writes : 

 " Your New Lettuce (Golden Gate) is the best I ever saw. I 

 planted it out in that severe drought we had in May and June 

 and it headed like a cabbage, not one plant showing any ten- 

 dency to run to seed, while all other varieties right alongside 

 of it were total failures." 



FKOM MISSOURI 



Mrs. George Lambrey, Forest City, Mo., Sept. 19, 1899, 

 writes : "I find your New Lettuce (Golden Gate) nearer per- 

 fection than any I have ever grown, and I have grown nearly 

 all known varieties. I want no other in future.' ' 



FROM TEXAS 



J. T. Ballentine, Seabrook, Texas, Sept. 1, 1899, writes: 

 " Your New Lettuce (Golden Gate) is the finest I have ever 

 seen grown in half a century of gardening."^ 



FROM NEBRASKA 



W. E. Baleman, St. Louis, Neb., Sept. 20, 1890, writes: 

 " Undoubtedly the best head lettuce in cultivation is this 

 new one of yours. It cannot be excelled in quality by any 

 other variety. It stands handling for market and seus 

 higher and better than any ever seen here." 



FROM NEW YORK 



F. A. Morehouse, Ripley, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1899, writes; 

 "Your New Lettuce is wonderful. I ran a market wagon 

 this summer to the Assembly Grounds at Chautauqua. My 

 lettuce was pronounced by the Chautauquans as the very 

 finest ever seen on the market." 



FROM MICHIGAN 



Mrs. Holland Hollander, Vicksburg, Mich., Sept. 10, 

 1899, writes: " Of all the lettuce ever raised by us, this new 

 oneofyoursisby far the best. It has no superior or equal. 

 It grows large, crisp golden heads, which bear up well and 

 stand dry weather to a remarkable degree." 



Prices of choice seed of Golden Gate Lettuce : Per pkt., lOc; oz., 35c.; i lb., $1.00 ; lb., 13.50. 



