FRANCIS • C • STOKES • AND • COMPANY 



Photo by courtesy of Prof. L. G. Schermt 

 The Unrivalled or Green Leaved Big Boston type of lettuce makes solid heads and is of the very finest table quality. 



Lettuce 



The Four 

 Stokes Strains 



Two to three pounds 

 will plant an acre 



We have recent reports from all over this country telling of the satisfaction our customers are having with 

 our lettuce seed. We consider the four stocks offered in this catalog to be of great dependability and the finest 

 strains of each variety so far developed. This seed is grown under ideal conditions and with the greatest care. 

 It is grown for us by experts of long standing. Invariably we pay premium prices to have the very finest stocks 



grown for us. 



Green-Leaved Big Boston (Stokes) 



Outstanding feature: Delicious table quality. 



SPECIFICATIONS: 

 Type purity 96%. Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer). 



Germination 99%. Days to matu ity : 75-80. 



Date of Test: December. 1926. Size of head: 5 to 6 inches. 



This variety is an item of great importance to our trade. Our crop has been grown from our private stock seed which we consider 

 to "be a very fine selection of the Unrivalled Type. Every precaution has been taken to insure the purity of our strain. The fact that 

 the vast majority of our present stock has been carried long enough to give it a thorough trial allows us to offer it to our customers with 

 double assurance. 



The fresh, green color of this type of Boston is no doubt responsible for the consistently high price it commands on the market. Ordi- 

 narily it is planted for the first field-planting in the spring with a subsequent planting in the late summer. We consider the table quality 

 of Green-Leaved Big Boston, when grown under normal conditions, to surpass any lettuce we know of. 



Price, delivered: Packet 10c M oz. 20c., Va lb. 60c, lb. $2.00, 10 lbs. @ $1.85 per lb., 50 lbs. @ $1.75 per lb. 



Big Boston (Stokes) 



Outstanding feature: Great uniformity. 



SPECIFICATIONS: 

 Type purity 98%. Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer). 



Germination 98%. Days to maturity: 75-80. 



Date of Test: December, 1926. Size of head: 5 to 6 inches. 



We do not concede that there is a finer stock of Big Boston available. Growers who are looking for the very best need go no farther 

 for we have been unable to find a superior stock, and we have searched far. Big Boston is well-known as an early, hardy Lettuce, stand- 

 ing long-distant shipments. The head is brittle and buttery and of good table quality. Big Boston (Stokes) will prove a very sure and 



solid-heading sort. 



Price, delivered: No packets; oz. 15c, Vi lb. 50c, lb. $1.50, 10 lbs. @ $1.40 per lb., 50 lbs. @ $1.35 per lb. 



Walter P. Stokes first started handling seeds fifty years ago in the grocery shop of Caleb Wood on the Second Street 

 Market. We are still within four squares of that market in the old part of Philadelphia in a building as old as the 



nation, but with a business as young as Progress. 



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