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HENDERSON'S 



Early Butternut Lettuce 



Introduced by Peter Henderson & Co. in 1923 

 The Most Delicious of the Butterhead Type 

 Valuable for Forcing 

 Earliest Head Lettuce for Growing in the Garden 



499. There is no food more conducive to good health than a 

 plentiful supply of -fresh vegetables, and. most important 

 among them are the salads. Of all the salad plants grown, ^ 

 Lettuce stands ' pre-eminent, because it is particularly 

 valuable on account of its blood-enriching and tonic 

 properties. It supplies the human system with the 

 mineral salts that are required to keep the body fit, and it 

 is also one. of the chief sources of the recently discovered 

 vitamines. Besides its healthful qualities, Lettuce adds 

 zest and variety to the daily meal. 



Henderson's New Butternut Lettuce is particularly 

 valuable because of its excellence for forcing in the hot 

 bed or cold frame. Many growers have experienced 

 difficulty in forcing Lettuce in frames on account of 

 mildew and other fungus diseases. Our trials have proven 

 that Henderson's Early Butternut Lettuce is less suscep- 

 tible to this-fault than any other sort. 



For a garden crop, Henderson's Early Butternut Let- 

 tuce is a valuable acquisition on account of its earliness, 

 being from 5 to 6 days earlier than any other of the head- 

 ing sorts. It is of the popular butterhead type, forming me- 

 dium-sized heads, which are very compact, and of a creamy- 

 white color. It has few outer leaves, being all head, which 

 allows closer planting. {See engraving.) Price, 20c. pkt., 

 pkts. for $1.00 



Our booklet, "Salads 

 Growing and Blanch- 

 ing," tells about the best 

 methods of growing 

 Lettuce 



HENDERSON'S 



Mignonette Lettuce 



A DELICIOUS FIRST EARLY 

 ONCE TASTED, ALWAYS WANTED 



618. A little gem of Lettuce — perfect in quality, with bronzed* 

 rusaet-green outer leaves. The solid heads blanch creamy-white. 

 and are tender and sweet as well. It is extremely hardy, and is the 

 best sort for early spring use, for cold frame culture or for an out- 

 door winter crop in the Southern States. It is very early and heads 

 quickly and surely. Being slow to go to seed it is sometimes used aa 

 il summer variety, though it does not stand extreme heat so well aa 

 "Bome sorts. The diminutive plant permits it to be set as closely 

 as five inches apart; an obvious advantage to many. (See en- 

 graving.) Price, IOC. pkt., 30c. oz., 90c. }4, lb-, $2.50 lb. 



. "I wani to tell you what a success I had with your Mignonette Lettuce. It 

 was the first of several varieties to head and the last to run to seed. It is the 

 best of them all." JAMES T. WOOD WA RD, CotumUa, S. C. 



"I must tell you thai your Mignonette is far superior to any Lettuce lever 

 raised, and seems to do equally wM in the spring, fall, or for the hot beds in 

 the winter, heading most beautifully without transplanting. My friends 

 have all enjoyed my Lettuce so m.uch that they have asked me to order seeds for 

 them. I ordered your Mignonette Lertuce for my father {an amateur gardener 

 of many years with quite a local reputation) and he says he never knew anjf 

 lettuce so fine." MRS. S. B. LOWE, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 



"It may interest you further to know that the one acre of Lettuce which I 

 grew in one place this spring turned into S23u0. I think this is the banner 

 acre of the country. I have never heard of one beating it. In this acre we 

 had already started, before we cut the Lettuce, Tomatoes. We expect to get a 

 crop of early Tomatoes and pull the vines in time to sow the fall crop of 

 Lettuce. The biggest yield that I ever had from the acre and three-quarters 

 (of which this is a part) was $4,700. I expect to go above that this year." 



JOHN S. WARE, Bridgeton, N. J. 



HENDERSON'S 



Unrivaled Lettuce 



SUCCEEDS AT ALL SEASONS 

 EARLY, TENDER, CRISP AND BUTTERY 



528. This is a new variety, and has proved to be a very valuable 

 acquisition to the Lettuce family. It is very early in maturing, 

 being fit for use about the same time as Henderson's Big Boston, 

 which it resembles somewhat in appearance and in the size of the 

 head. Henderson's Unrivaled Lettuce is pale green in color, 

 shading to creamy white at the center of the head which is formed 

 . of closely wrapped crispy leaves giving it great compactness of 

 form. We highly recommend this sort, feeling confident that it will 

 become a prime favorite. 



Price, IOC pkt., 25c. 02., 75c. }4 lb., $2.00 lb. 



Vegetable Plants are on sale at our store during the Spring and Summer, but owing to their perishable nature 

 and delay in transportation, we cannot undertake to ship them. 



