SEED GROWERS 



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Head Lettuce, White Boston 



LETTUCE— LOOSE LEAVED VARIETIES 





lib. 



10 lbs. 



Telegraph 



or more 



or more 



Code Word 



per lb. 



per lb. 



BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON leimp $0.65 $0 60 



Early. Dependable in all parts of America and widely grown in 

 home and market gardens. Plant large, attractive, compact, 

 with broad, frilled light green leaves that are of fine crisp texture 

 and splendid quality. 



Chicken Lettuce leken .55 .50 



Very hardy, rapid growing, medium light green, non-heading 

 butter type which produces flower stalks early and furnishes an 

 abundance of leaves over a long period of growth. 



EARLY CURLED SIIVIPSON, w. s. lerly .65 .60 



Early. Also well known as "White Seeded Simpson." Very hardy 

 and dependable; particularly popular for home gardens. Plant 

 large, compact, bright light lustrous green; leaves broad, frilled, 

 firm, crisp, sweet and of good quality. 



Grand Rapids, b. s legra .70 .65 



Very early. Hardy, disease resistant; the most widely used and 

 best adapted variety for greenhouse forcing. Plants large, up- 

 right, compact and handsome; bright solid light green; leaves 

 large, broad, margin much waved and frilled; very tender and 

 sweet when grown under glass. 



Ohio Grand Rapids, b. s leohi .95 .90 



The same as Grand Rapids except that the foUage is darker green 

 and not so tender. The variety stands more abuse in handling. 



Prize Head, w. s leriz .60 .55 



Very early, quick growing and one of the most popular for home 

 gardens, particularly on the Pacific Coast. Plant medium large, 

 strictly loose-leaf; leaves broad, crumpled and frilled; outside 

 leaves tinged red, inner leaves wholly g^een; very crisp, sweet 

 and tender 



