STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY 



MOORESTOWN 



GRAND RAPIDS (x 1/4) 



No. 462. Black Seed Simpson. Days to Maturity, 78. 

 Will hold twenty-two days before shooting to seed. Introduced by 

 Peter Henderson & Company in 1880. One of the most largely 

 planted varieties in this country, and it is a loose-leaved lettuce, 

 late-intermediate in attaining full development and, as noted above, 

 slow to shoot to seed. The plant is fairly compact and consists of 

 fii-m, weU-blanched V-shaped clusters of leaves, the innermost 

 heart curving inward and showing a tendency to form a head. The 

 leaves are very much blistered, crumpled and twisted with large, 

 protruding mid-ribs and color is a very Light green, never spotted or 

 brownish. The quality is very fair, being sweet but somewhat firm 

 in texture. Seeds are black. This variety must not be confused with 

 the Early Curled Simpson, which is a white-seeded Simpson. The 

 Morse is a white-seeded selection out of it, but rather thicker leaved. 



Pkt. 5(i, oz. lOi, lb. 30^, lb. $1.00, 5 lbs. $4.50, postpaid; by 

 express, 5 lbs. or more, 80f5 per lb. 



HANSON (x 1/4) 



No. 466. Trianon Cos. Days to Matukity, 82. Will hold 

 twenty days before shooting to seed. Paris White Cos is a synonym 

 for this variety. This class of lettuce has been grown in America 

 for i.early one hundred and twenty-five years. It was offered in 1793 

 by Minton Collins, of Richmond, Virginia, and by B. K. Bliss in 

 1860. It was a typical cos variety, strictly self-closing, comparatively 

 late and very slow to shoot to seed. The plant is compact, blanched, 

 firm head, round at the top with leaves not tightly over-lapjjing one 

 another. The color is a very dark green on the outside anti well 

 blanched on the inside. They are never spotted or brownish in any 

 part. The quality is excellent. It is very hard in texture, but is 

 exceedingly crisp and sweet, and is especially desirable for long 

 distance shipping or for prompt table use. Trianon Cos will make a 

 delicious Romaine salad, and is a pleasing change from the soft, 

 buttery varieties. Seed white. 



Pkt. 5(4, oz. IQi, M lb. 30fi, lb. $1.00, 5 lbs. $4.50, postpaid; by 

 express, 5 lbs. or more, 80(4 per lb. 



NEW JERSEY 



No. 460. Grand Rapids. Days to Mattjkity, 69. 



Will hold ten days before shooting to seed. It was 

 originated after fifteen years' selection of Black Seeded Simpson 

 by Eugene Davis, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was known 

 in Grand Rapids ten or more years prior to 1890, when it was 

 formally introduced by D. M. Ferry & Companj^ under the 

 name of Grand Rapids. A variety of very wide popiilarity, but of 

 very poor quality. It is early-intermediate in season and wiU shoot 

 to seed quickly. The plant is very spreading when young, but be- 

 comes very compact when mature, forming a loosely rounded cluster 

 of leaves, growing close enough for only shght blanching, but when 

 fully matured, they never spread out at the center. The leaves are 

 excessively blistered and crumpled and slightly twisted, very thick 

 and heavy with coarse veins and protruding mid-ribs. Color is a very 

 light green, never spotted or brownish in any part. Quality is verj' 

 poor, being coarse and rank in flavor, at least to the extent of lacking 

 in sweetness and delicacy. Seeds black, slow to germinate. 



Pkt. 5^, oz. 10^. M lb. 30^, lb. $1.00, 5 lbs. $4.50, postpaid; by 

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



BLACK SEED SIMPSON (x 1/4) 



No. 470. Hanson. Days to Maturity, 86. Will hold twenty- 

 four days before shooting to seed. Introduced by Dreer about 1871, 

 who has claimed that the seed came from Col. Hanson, of Maryland, 

 after having been in the family for three generations, having origi- 

 nally come from Europe. This variety is unquestionably the best 

 loose-leaved sort for either home or market garden. In quality it 

 outclasses all other loose-leaved sorts. It is a decidedly crisp, loose- 

 heading variety, mediimi in size, hght green in color on the outside 

 and white within. It is never spotted or brownish in any part. The 

 quality is excellent, being exceedingly crisp and firm in texture and 

 very sweet. This variety cannot be recommended too highly. 

 Seeds are white. 



Pkt. 5^, oz. 10^, M lb. 30(«, lb. $1.00, 5 lbs. $4.50, postpaid; by 

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



TRIANON COS (x 1/3 



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