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W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 



LETTUCE. 





BIG BOSTON. 



IM;'l.ui HO HANSON 



RIO F>0~TON.— A very popular variety with gardeners 

 who want a large heading forcing sort, and also for outdoor 

 winter culture : the plants are large and very hardy and vigor- 

 ous, with broad, smooth, thin and very hardy leaves, which 

 are bright light green in color, and when well grown are quite 

 tender : indoors this forms a solid head, while outdoors it is 

 lessd stinctively a heading sort. This is grown in the South 

 as a "inter lettuce. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; quarter pound 25c; 

 pound 30c. 



A" LEN'S IMPROVED HANSON.— A beautiful heading 

 sort, intermediate with loose leaved and cabbage varieties; 

 th»: h"ads are very large, of fine form, deliciously sweet, ten- 

 der and crisp, even of the outer leaves: color green outside, 

 and white within. Free from any bitter or unpleasant taste. 

 Pkt. 5c ; oz. 10c ; quarter pound 30c ; pound $1.00. 



1 NEW YORK. — A beautiful deep green color, forming 

 arqre head3. sometimes two or three pounds in weight ; suit- 

 able fir summer use, and is very slow to run to seed. Pkt. 5c ; 

 Q z. 10c ; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 



0"?ANn RAPIDS.— This variety is beautiful in appear- 

 ance ; excellent for garnishing and is very tender and crisp : 

 a strong growing variety that retains its freshness a long time 

 after being cut; as a forcing variety for winter and early 

 spring use this stands at the head of the list; it is beautiful 

 in appearance. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; quarter pound 25c; pound 

 80c. 



ALL THE YEAR ROUND.-Bears the heat of mid-sum- 

 mer well, also good for forcing ; one of the best for market ; 

 good for either spring or fall planting. Try it. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 

 j 0c ; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 



DEACON.— Plants make firm heads, nearly as large and 

 almost as solid as cabbage : the heads are light green outside, 

 wh ' • the inner blanched portion is a beautiful creamy yellow", 

 f'l»lci>us, rich, buttery flavor. This magnificent lettuce 

 stands hot weather better than any other of the varieties. 

 pkt. 5c ; oz. 10c ; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 



WHITE SEEDED TENNIS BALL Ok BOSTON JTAR= 



KET —Plants of medium size and quick growth ; headswellin 

 cool locations and during the full, but if planted late in the 

 spring or summer is apt to run to seed without heading ; large- 

 ly grownduring the winter under glassfor head lettuce. Pkt. 

 5c ; oz. 10c ; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c, 



Ksgaassra 



CRISP-AS-ICE LETTUCE. 



PHILADELPHIA BUTTER.— It is extremely hardy and 

 heads well during cool spring and fall weather ; a popular 

 cold frame variety, largely grown for early spring market in 

 the vicinity of Philadlephia, the plant being set in the frames 

 late in lhe fall and producing good, large, solid, finely blanched 

 heads early in the spring; an extremely hardy variety. Pkt. 

 5c ; oz. 10c ; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 



PRiZ° HEAD.— This hardy variety is of superb flavor, 

 bright green color tinged with brownish red: this is not a 

 heading variety, but forms a mammoth plant in which even 

 the outer leaves are crisp and tender. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 

 quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 



CRISP=AS=ICE.— This is a beautiful lettuce of the cab- 

 bage type ; the solid heads are of large size and the leaves are 

 so tender and brittle as to have suggested the name bestowed 

 upon it ; the head has a rich yellow heart ; the leaves ai e 

 thick and glossy; somewhat curled and of a good and attractive 

 green color, varigated with bronze. Crisp-As-Ice can not be 

 over estimated or over praised for home use in spring or sum- 

 mer. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 10c ; quarter pound 30c ; pound $1.00. 



MUSK-MELON OR CANTALOUPE. 



aGc^y Ford J.tujli Meloa. 



BURRELL ATM —This is a combination of the following varie- 

 ties: Osage, Defender, Pocky Ford nnd Acma, and more particular 

 f->e rvfender and Acr-a. It is the rf si'lt of the personal e^orts of P. V. 

 Burrell. the originator, to produce an ideal market melon. Such a 



melon requires the development of many vital points. 

 It has a tough, thin rind, well arched ribs covered 

 with a closely laced and interlaced gray netting. The 

 blossom end is protected with a well developed but- 

 ton. Shape quite elongated, the diameter from stem 

 to blossom being one-third more than from top to 

 bottom; Meat of a reddish orange, very thick, fine 

 grained and spicy, not containing too much water or 

 acid. Seed cavity small, triangular, the seed closely 

 held in place in three lobes. (This is one of the first 

 points to consider in the shipping melon, as if the 

 fibrous growth containing the seeds is not well de- 

 veloped, the seeds soon shake loose and the melon 

 quickly begins to decay.) 



The average weight is about 2% lbs.; the length 

 six inches and the thickness 4'i inches. As \o 

 whether I have succeeded in this. I refer you to v'- , at 

 the trade papers, wholesale dealers and cofisu ' ■ v s 

 say. That they pay well the account sales prove. 

 The demand forthem is established, and the i 'a" r 

 who grows them and the dealer who is fo t'tDi 

 enough to get them to handle this coming f-in, w ! 

 have an inside chance with the trade. On Let. ,V 

 R. T. Cochran & Co.. of New York City, so' J I ' 

 dozen Burrell Gem for $1,251.25 : on October Fth t' 

 same party sold 735 dozen for $1,227.50: t v -se tv. > 

 shiprhents netted clear of expenses $1,?T3 28, or 

 nearlvSi.OO per dozen. A number of otl r sKp- 

 ments were equally as well, and in fact, some were 

 even better. If space would permit. I could give 

 two or three pages of such figures as these. 



Under date of Nov. 7th, 1906, 1 received the f ol- 



