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Cucumber, National Pickling 
Name 
| ENDIVE 
Deep Heart Fringed 
Full Heart Batavian 
(Escarolle) 
Green Curled Ruffec, Green 
Ribbed 
Large Green Curled (Pink 
Ribbed) 
FENNEL 
Florence 
KALE or BORECOLE 
Dwarf Blue Curled 
Dwarf Green Curled 
Jersey or Thousand 
Headed 
Siberian or Sprouts 
Tall Green Curled Scotch 
KOHL RABI 
Early Purple Vienna 
Early White Vienna 
LEEK 
American, London, or 
Large Flag 
Giant Musselburgh 
Monstrous Carentan 
|. LETTUCE, HEADING 
Bibb 
Big Boston 
Cornell No. 456 
Great Lakes 
Green Mignonette 
Days to 
Table 
Size 
90 
90 
95 
95 
110 
60 
55 
150 
150 
150 
57 
76 
82 
82 
66 
Endive, Full Heart Batavian 
Description—Points You Want to Know—Prices 
All-America Silver Medal, 1940. Our introduction pkt. 10c 
An improved form of Broad Leaved Batavian. Leaves large and broad. Heads compact, 
well-rounded. Unexcelled for salads because of crispness and tenderness pkt. 10c 
Leaves mossy appearing. Center blanches to delicate white. Very good for fall and winter 
use pkt. 10c 
Vigorous and resistant. Outer leaves bright green, midribs tinged with rose. Center leaves 
blanch readily. Attractive salad plant pkt. 10c 
Branching plant with feathery foliage and bulb-like base. Sweet-flavored bulb eaten cooked 
or raw; stalks eaten like celery pkt. 10c 
Improved strain of Dwarf Curled Scotch. Very popular in vicinity of Norfolk pkt. 10c 
Low, spreading plant. Finely curled, parsley-like leaves. Desirable for greens and garnish- 
ing. Exceptionally hardy pkt. 10c 
Strong growing plants 6 to 8 ft. tall. Smooth leaves. Much used for poultry and stock feed 
pkt. 10c 
Dwarf, spreading plants. Large plume-like frilled leaves. Sometimes called *‘German Breese 
pkt. 10c 
Light green densely curled leaves on plants 3 ft. tall. Widely grown for greens. Very hardy; 
improved by light frosts pkt. 10c 
Bulbs purplish color; flesh white and tender pkt. 10c 
Bulbs light green on outside; flesh white, mild-flavored, tender. Most popular table variety 
pkt. Cc 
Early. Popular gardener’s variety with long, thick, well blanched stem pkt. 10c 
Not so hardy as Monstrous Carentan, and stems 
pkt. 10c 
pkt. 10c 
Long white stem; medium green leaves. 
longer and more slender 
Very popular hardy variety. Pure white stem. Dark, blue green leaves 
Small, somewhat loose heads with a distinct flavor. Outer leaves deep glossy green, interior 
rich yellowish waxy green. Very tender pkt. 10c 
Plain edged leaves tinged bronze at margins. Buttery yellow at heart. One of best flavored 
varieties pkt. 10c 
An excellent new variety of the Iceberg type developed at Cornell University. Similar to 
Great Lakes in appearance and performance pkt. 10c 
New variéty of Iceberg type, introduced by Michigan State College. Highly recommended for 
planting in the Great Lakes area. All-America Award, 1944 pkt. 10c 
A somewhat larger selection of the older variety; wholly green, no trace of brown. Very 
crisp. Especially adapted to tropical climates. Popular in South Pacific. Our introduc- 
tion pkt. 10c 
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