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CAI.IFOKXIA AiL aEAKT. The vaUey of Santa 

 •Clara, California, just south of San Francisco, has of late years 

 been noted for growang the finest lettuce in the world. This 

 new rariety was sent from there, with the request that we 

 test it. The originator, a prominent grower, in sending us 

 the seed, wrote: "No praise is too high for its merits, 

 as its superior does not exist." After a fair trial by our- 

 selves and numerous customers, we can fully endoi-se his 

 strong claims for it. Its shape is very distinct, heading up 

 like a pointed cabbage and almost as solid, of a beautiful 

 light green shade, almost white, and particularly rich and 

 ibuttery in flavor. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 20c.; 14 lb., 65c.; lb., j2.25. 



nCTOB DUTCH BUTTEK. Qlarket gardeners' 

 private stock.) This fine variety has had a famous local 

 reputation around Philadelphia, where market gardeners 

 h:ive heretofore paid very high prices for seed. It is a greatly 

 improved strain of the Dutch Speckled Butter, most highly 

 prized for early spring and autumn sowing; producing crisp, 

 ■\vhite, solid he.ids. almost equal to a cabbage: the outer 

 leaves are speckled with a brownish tinge. It is an elegant 

 forcing variety , or for growing in cold frames, and stands 

 ]>eat and cold to a remarkable degree. Pkt., 5c.: oz., 25c.; 

 341b., 65c.; lb.,S2.2.5. 



ABIJ:XGT0X TEN~S1S BAIX. This strain of white- 

 seeded Tennis Ball is saved by one of the most successful 

 market gardeners in Arlington, Mass., where the Teunis 

 Sail Lettuce originated. His lettuces have carried off first 

 premiums at the Massachusetts Horticultural Shows for 

 years in succession. The seed is saved from plants started 

 under glass, by which means the valuable forcing qualities 

 are tetter retained than from plants started outside, and from 

 selected heads only. It is in every respect the same as the 

 originator uses for stock and which other gardeners have 

 heretofore been glad to get, paj-ing Si. 00 per ounce for it. 

 We highly recommend this special strain, knowing that 

 nothing finer in a forcing lettuce can be obtained. The 

 price we have to ask for this is slightly above ordinary 

 stock; but when the extraordinary pains taken in forcing 

 and setting out the plants, selecting and sa%-ing, are con- 

 ■sidered, anyone who knows the importance of sowing the 

 T^est seed will not hesitate in paving the slight difference in 

 price. Pkt., 15c.: oz., 40c.; H lb., Sl.2.5 ; lb., S4.00. 



CAXIFOKNTA CREA3I BtJTTEK. This variety 

 forms large, solid, round, compact heads, light green outside 

 and creamy yellow within. It is medium early and strongly 

 recommended a.s a summer varietv, being verv slow to shooi 

 to seed. Pkt., .5c.; oz., 15e.; J<i lb., 40e.; lb., S1.50. 



I-0XGST-4:NT>ER BKONZE head. This new lettuce 

 IS pronounced by those who have grown it the largest, 

 handsomesl and Jonge-st standing of any brown cabbage lettuce. 

 Its strong points and beautiful golden bronze color are well 

 •described by a well-known market gardener, who writes: 

 "■ There are not words in the EngMsh language to sufficiently 

 praise your new lettuce. Longstander Bronze Head. It goes 

 to head when very small and continues growing through the 

 -whole summer, attaining a size larger than a half bushel. I 

 -could not get any of it to go to seed for me; it stood from 

 April until October and never started to seed. It is exceed- 

 ingly tender and of the best flavor ; it looks very greasy-like, 

 as though a fine yellow oil had been poured over it, saturat- 

 ing everv part of the head and leaf."' Pkt., lOe.: oz.. 30c.; 

 34 lb., SOc; lb., S3.00. 



PHELADELPHIA DUTCH BUTTER SPECKtED. 



Producing large heads of excellent quality; one of the best 

 for the market gardener ; stands heat well and slow to run to 

 seed. Pkt., 5e.; oz., 15c.; J^ lb., 45c.; lb., S1.65. 



IMPRO^"ED HANSON. An improved strain of this 

 superior curled heading variety, of large size, often weighing 

 three pounds : sweet, tender and crisp, of a beautiful green 

 without and white within. Eesists heat and drought well. 

 Pkt., 5e.; oz., 15c.; % lb., 40c.; lb., Sl.Sb. 



NEW WHITE RUSSIA^- SniMER. This is pre- 

 eminently one of the best sorts to withstand our long, hot 

 summer. The heads generally have to be cut before any 

 seed-stalk will appear. It is not a forcing variety, but one 

 of the best for open ground crops, both North and South. Of 

 very rapid growth, with few outer leaves; in color it is a 

 light apple green, yellowish-white inside, and forms a Tery 

 large, solid head of the finest quality for market and 

 shipping. All who have planted it are enthusiastic in its 

 praise This lettuce is so distinct that, a casual observer 

 could readilv discover a single head in an acreofanv other 

 sort. Pkt., lOc; oz., 35c.; !41b.,SI.OO; lb.,S.3 50. 



REICHNER'S EARtT WHITE BUTTER. This 

 very excellent new variety is the result of several yeai-s' 

 selection from the Philadelphia Early White Cabbage made 

 by the Reichners, who are among the best market gardeners 

 around Philadelpliia. It is a splendid forcing lettuce, and 

 very valuable for summer on account of its slowness to shoot 

 to seed. It is also the best variety for sowing in the fall, for 

 planting on ridges, being entirely hardy in the South, and 

 requiring only a slight protection in the North; produces 

 fine, large, white solid heads of superb qualitv, and is 

 remarkably early. Pkt.. 5c.; oz., 20c.: % lb., 65c.; lb., S2.2.5. 



N-EW PERPETUAL, or IMPROVED SEMPSON. 



This variety is entirely distinct, not heading, but forming 

 huge compact bushes. The leaf is a uellouish-green and rery 

 lender. For private use it is especially adapted, as only one 

 sowing is necessary for the whole season. It remains up to 

 the time of seeding of just the same quality for eating as at 

 any time before. Pkt., 5c.: oz. , 15c.: ^^ lb., 40c.; lb.. SI. 35. 



TOJIHANNOCK. A splendid new cutting lettuce of 

 fine quality, which it retains for an unusual length of time 

 during growth; the leaves grow upright, the edges of the 

 leaves growing outward and handsomely wrinkled. The 

 inside leaves are of a verv pale green, and remarkablv crisp 

 and tender. Pkt., 5c.; oz.. 15c.: % lb... 30c.: lb., SI. 00. 



SAEAMANDEB. An excellent summer variety, with- 

 standing drought and heat to a remarkable extent; forms 

 good-sized compact heads: light green outside; white 

 within. Pkt., .DC.; oz., 15c.; Ji lb., 4.5c.; lb.. Si. 60. 



NEW YORK. A very large green lettuc-e with solid 

 heads, often weighing three to four pounds each. Not suited 

 for forcing, but excellent for summer use, being slow to 

 shoot to seed. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 1.5c.; Ji lb., 40c.; lb., SI. 40. 



AMERICAN VARIETIES MIXED. Fifteen kinds 

 mixed in one packet. Early, medium and late sorts, giving 

 lettuce for table use the entire season. Pkt.. lUc; oz., 20c. 



Other Standard Varieties Lettuce. The following 

 are so well-known as not to require a detailed description. 

 We can furnish them at the uniform price of 5c. per pkt.; 1.5c. 

 per oz.; 40c. per J4 lb.; S1.40 per lb., post-paid: "White Seeded 

 Tennis Ball, or Boston 3Iarket, Black Seeded Tennis 

 Ball, Hubbard's Market, Deacon, Early Curled Simp- 

 son, Curled Silesian, Phila. Early Prize Head, Stand- 

 well, Chartier, Black Seed Satisfaction, Improved 

 Defiance Summer, Improved Yellow Seeded Butter, 

 Large Passion, Oak Leaved. 



CELERY LETTUCE. 



This new variety 

 from France is 

 by far the best 

 Cos Lettuce we 

 have ever grown 

 and, after a criti- 

 cal test of three 

 seasons, we can 

 recommend it as 

 the verv finest of 

 its class. The 

 leaves when 

 bleached are stiff 

 like celery stalks 

 and can be eaten 

 in the same man- 

 ner. In many 

 countries of Eu- 

 rope wh ere 

 knovm, this let- 

 tuce is preferred 

 to celerv. Those 

 NEW TETAI.-ON COS LETTUCE. ^jjo hare never 



grown the Cos Lettuces will be amply repaid by giving this 

 new sort a trial. Pkt.. lOc: oz., 20c.: 34 lb., 60c.; lb., S-2,00. 



Paris White Cos. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 15c.; lb., S1.40. 



THE TRLiNON COS, or 



