4 jg STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY 



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. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, l /± lb. 65c, 1 lb. 

 $2.00, postpaid. 



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. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, 34 lb. 65c, 1 lb. 

 $2.00, postpaid. 



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Big Boston Lettuce Plants are offered. See page 75. 



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 ane introduced by him 

 in 1890. The name proved to be at once attractive and popular. 

 Big Boston is a white-seeded cabbage-heading lettuce of the butter 



BIG BOSTON (x 1/4) 



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 itself 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. How- 

 ever, it lacks the delicacy, sweetness and tenderness of the strictly 

 butter varieties, and for this reason is not recommended for home 

 garden purposes as strongly as Black-Seed Tennis Ball or May 

 King. Pkt. 10c. oz. 25c, M lb. 65c, 1 lb. $2.00, postpaid. 



NEW YORK OR WONDERFUL (x 1/4) 



However, it is not difficult to grow your own 



