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LETTUCE. _ 
CULTURE.—Lettuce is sown during the whole year by the market gardeners. Of 
course, it takes a great deal of labor to produce this vegetable during our hot months. 
Before sowing soak the seeds for two hours in water, take them out, put in a piece of 
cloth and set in a cool damp place, or if convenient in-an ice box, which is best. Keep 
the cloth moist and in four to six days the seeds will sprout. Then sow them. It is best 
to do so in the evening, and give a good watering. If the seeds are sown without being 
sprouted, ants will be likely to carry them away before they can germinate, and the 
seedsman be blamed for selling seeds that did not grow. This sprouting has to be done 
from May to September, or if the weather is warm and dry in the latter month, up to 
the middle of October. Should the weather be moist and cool in the Fall it can be 
dispensed with. The richer and better the ground the larger the head will be. The seed 
should be sown broadcast; when large enough plant out in rows a foot apart, and from 
eight to ten inches apart in rows. Some kinds grow larger than others; for instance, 
Butter Head will not require as much space as Big Boston. Matures in 50 to 85 days. 
One ounce to 250 feet of drill; 3 pounds per acre. 
STECKLER’S NEW YORE OR WON- 
DERFUL CABBAGE LETTUCE.—For all | 
sections and all seasons. Excellent for | 
mid-summer; one of the best for resisting 
heat. Heads large, well blanched, crisp, 
tender and sweet. Matures in 55 days. 
Packet, 10c.; oz., 25c.; % 1b., 60c.; 1b., $2.00, | 
postpaid. | 
STECKLER’S SPECIAL WHITE WINX- 
TER.—This Lettuce has_ been _ planted 
here for some years. It is hardy, light 
green in color; fine head. We feel that it 
is the coming Winter Lettuce for the 
Southern States: too much cannot be said 
of it is -as ‘Winter growing Lettuce. 
Packet, 10c.; 0z., 25c.; 1%4 Ib., 60c.; 1b., $2.00, 
postpaid. 
ICEBERG.—The unusual solidity of the 
heads is insured by the large white main- 
ribs of the leaves, each of which, curving 
strongly into the center, acts like a truss, 
making it impossible for the leaves to open 
outward ai Pere pel Centers pe is i 
consequently oroughly blanched. acket, 
10c.; 0z., 20c.; 14 Ib., 50c.; 1b., $1.75, post- Trocadero, 
paid. TROCADERO.—This is a fine forcing 
STECKLER’S SELECTED BIG BOSTON. variety for coldframes during Winter 
—It is perfection, and you cannot buy any months, as it produces heads of very large 
Big Boston Lettuce at any price that is size, often ten or twelve inches across and 
superior to our strain. The heads of this succeeds better in a cooler temperature 
strain are so firm and solid that almost than most foreing strains. The large heads 
every head can be cut. It is a standard are beautifully blanched and of superior 
market garden and shipping variety, being quality. It heads well also in the open 
grown almost exclusively in many sections ground during cool‘ weather of Spring and 
tor shipment and for market. Extra large, Fall and is very popular in the South to 
round, firm, heading variety, and makes grow for shipping North. Packet, 10c.; 
a good appearance in market. Our seed of oz., 20c.; 144 lb., 60.; Ib., $2.00, postpaid. 
this variety is grown for us by a lettuce 
seed specialist whom we consider the best 
in the world. Our seed of Big Boston is 
the purest and hardest heading stock that 
you can obtain. Packet, 10c.; oz., 15c.; %4 
lb., 40c.; 1b., $1.50, postpaid. 
_ GRAND RAPIDS.—This superb Lettuce 
is especially adapted to greenhouse culture 
in Winter; also a good Lettuce to sow out- 
side early in the Spring for family use. 
_ Very beautiful in-appearance. Of rapid, | 
upright growth, and may therefore be | 
planted quite close and not liable to rot; | 
retains its freshness a long time after | 
being cut, hence much sought after by 
dealers and shippers. Quality the best. | 
Packet, 10c.; 0z., 20c.; 14 Ib., 60c.; Ib., $2.00, | 
postpaid. | 
DO IT NOW. 
Putting off ordering seed early ruins 
thousands of gardens every year. Order 
now and you will have them sure. 
