STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY 



MOORESTOWN 



ALL SEASONS (x 1/4) 



No. 446. All Seasons. Days to Maturity, 77. Holds twenty 

 days before shooting to seed. Named and introduced by Mr. J. C. 

 Vaughan in 1897, who states that the variety was imported from 

 France about three years previous under the name of Denaiff . This 

 lettuce is quite similar to Deacon, as introduced by Joseph Harris 

 about 1878, being a little larger and later, the name originating from 

 a neighbor of Mr. Harris', who was known as Deacon Bushnell, Mr. 

 Bushnell having found it in the garden of a German woman who had 

 been raising it many years before. Apparently, therefore, from the 

 two original sources of origin, we take it that the general type was 

 of European origin. All Seasons is decidedly a butter variety, 

 strictly cabbage-headed, large intermediate in season and, as noted 

 above, slow to shoot to seed. Its ability to stand midsummer heat 

 places it in a class by itself, and it is recommended for main-season 

 planting in the place of all other varieties. Color is a light greenish, 

 never spotted or brownish in any part. The quality is excellent, 

 very sweet and soft, seeds black. 



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No. 442. May King. Days to Maturity, 75. It is one of the 

 more recent introductions from Europe, a good heading sort of the 

 butter type, medium small, light green and tinged slightly with brown 

 at the edges. In general appearance it resembles White-Seed Tennis 

 Ball, but is distinct in being earlier and is especially good for out- 

 door culture. As compared with that variety, it is slightly smaller, 

 lighter green and has less of the brown tinge. 



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NEW YORK OR WONDERFUL (x 1/4) 



NEW JERSEY 



No. 450. Big Boston. Days to Maturity, 78. 

 It will hold eighteen days before shooting to seed. 

 Probably the most generally grown variety under culti- 

 vation, and listed by practically every American and European 

 seedsman. In Europe it is usually called Trocadero Cabbage. 

 A lettuce, under the latter name, was being grown by Morse 

 for Henderson in 1887, and Mr. Henderson, comparing it with 

 Boston Market, but contrasting it as much larger and finer, 

 suggested the name Big Boston, and as such it was named and 

 introduced by him in 1890. The name proved to be at once attract- 

 ive and popular. Big Boston is a white-seeded cabbage-heading 

 lettuce of the butter type, medium large, globular, medium light 

 green with slight tinge of brown on margin of outer leaves. It is 

 early and hardy and stands long distance shipping. The head it- 

 self is brittle, buttery, and the interior almost a golden yellow. 

 The mature plant will form a compact, well-defined hard, head. The 

 quality is very fair. However, it lacks the delicacy, sweetness and 

 tenderness of the strictly butter varieties, and for this reason is not 

 recommended for home garden pui-poses as strongly as Black-Seed 

 Tennis Ball or May King. 



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BIG BOSTON (X 1/4) 



No. 464. Iceberg. Days to Maturity, 82. Will hold twenty-one 

 days before shooting to seed. A variety of European origin, introduced 

 into this country under the name of Iceberg by W. Atlee Burpee & Co., 

 1894. Apparently, it is a selection of the dark-green type of Marblehead 

 MammothandlndiaHead, the latter being a very old sort. Except that 

 it is smaller and Lighter in color, it is very much like Hanson. It is a very 

 crisp variety, loose cabbage heading, late and, as noted above, very slow 

 to shoot to seed. The head is extremely hard and well blanched, the 

 leaves very completely and tightly overlapping each other. The 

 color is light green, excepting for the faint brown tinge along the ex- 

 treme border. It is never spotted and the inner head leaves never 

 colored. The quahty is good, crisp and firm, very sweet but not 

 buttery in flavor. Seeds large white. 



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 express, 5 lbs. or more, 80^ per lb. 



No. 452. New York or Wonderful. Days to Maturity, 87. 

 It will hold twenty-four days before shooting to seed. This is the 

 old Chou de Naples or Neapolitan, and introduced, under the name 

 of New York, by Henderson in 1896. The synonyms Los Angeles 

 and Wonderful have been attached to it since its introduction. In 

 England the variety is better known under the name of Webb's 

 Wonderful. It is one of the largest of the heading varieties, curled 

 and crisp, dark green, and slightly curled at the edges. The head 

 at first is pointed or conical, but at matm-ity becomes globular. 

 Although of good quality, being exceedingly crisp and sweet, we do 

 not advise this lettuce for home garden purposes, as some of the 

 rnore buttery sorts are desirable. However, to those who have had 

 difficulty in growing well-formed heads. New York might be tried 

 with success, providing plenty of room is allowed between the indi- 

 vidual plants. Seed is white. 



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Big Boston Lettuce Plants are offered. See Pages 104-105. However, it is not difficult to grow your own 



