100!) B STREET. N. W.. WASHIXC.TOX. O. C 



19 



Lettuce 



(Lattick) 



rfa.le ! 



Sur 



LrttI 



Culture. Sow the seed in hotbeds in February or March, 

 transplant into a sheltering border with a southern exposure. 

 For successive crops sowing may be made in the open ground 

 as early as the spring opens, and continuing until July. Always 

 thin out well, or the plants will not be strong. When wanted 

 as a cut salad, sow the seed thickly in rows or broadcast. 



Bolgiano's Black Seed Summer Lettuce. A 



perfect heading outdoor Lettuce, especially during 

 our dry, hot summer, because it is long standing 

 and always tender and pleasant to the taste. It 

 does equally well for forcing under glass in hot 

 beds, cold frames, greenhouses and for outside culti- 

 vation. Pkts., 5 and 10c. ; ounce, 15c.; ]4 lb., 30c.; 

 lb., $1.00. 



Bolgiano's New Wonder Lettuce. This new 

 lettuce has solid round heads between 6 and 7 inches 

 in diameter. It is hardy and very early or quick in 

 maturing. The outer leaves are tinged with brown, 

 but not to the extent that Big Boston is. Its fine 

 flavor alone would make it take a leauins ^'''"-- 

 among lettuce growers. Pkts., 5 and 10c. ; pricer 

 1 oimce, 20c.; 2 ounces, 35c.; \i lb., 60c.; lb., $2.09.. 

 Farmer's Pride Lettuce. We recommend this. 

 Lettuce, feeling that wl en we do we have placed \n 

 the hands of our trade one that will give the utmost 

 satisfaction. It forms a large, sohd head, slow to 

 seed and early in forming. Its large golden heart 

 with outside leaves of bright green makes it pleas- 

 ing to the eye, and when used at the table it is unsurpassed. The leaves are crumpled and have none of the coarseness of 

 other sorts. Pkts., 5 and 10c ; ounce, 15c.. ]4, lb., 40c.; lb., $1.25. 



Big Boston Lettuce. A grand large cabbage lettuce, for either midsummer or fall use. Big, compact, tender and 

 crii^, creamy-white heads. This grand variety proved to be most valuable, steadily gaining in popularity until it is now 

 extensively grown for the private table or for sale. North, South, East and West. Whether grown in the cper: ground for 

 summer and fall use, in frames for spring, it invariably gives both grower and user the utmost satisfaction, producing during 

 all seasons, under ordinarily favorable conditions, splendid, large, buttery-yellow heads, packed with thoroughly blanched 

 leaves, crisp, tender, sweet and white, delighting both the palate and the eye. Although "Big Boston" is one of the best 

 large-heading midsummer Lettuces, it is also peculiarly adapted for late fall culture; large areas of it may be seen in this 

 vicinity as late as Nov. 15th. When cut for market the leaves are as fresh, bright and untinged as if in midsummer. Thousands 

 of acres of it are grown during the winter in Florida and other Southern States for shipping to Northern markets. Price: 

 pkt., 5 and 10c.; ounce, 15c.; M lb., 40c.; lb., $1.00. 



Bolgiano's Oak Leaf Lettuce is most remarkable for resisting the summer's heat, and retains its remarkable condi- 

 tions long after other sorts become worthless. Pkts., 5 and 10c. ; 2 ounces, 15c.; J^ lb., 30c.; lb., $1.00. 



Giant Crystal Head Lettuce. A splendid new cabbage-head Lettuce; very large, solid; outside leaves bright green; 

 inside cr>-stal white, with yellow heart: crisp and tender. Pkts., 5 and 10c. ; ounce, 15c.; \4, lb., 35c.; lb., $1.00. 



Hubbard Market Lettuce. One of the very best Lettuce for planting in the fall to stand over winter, either in cold 

 frames or outside. Makes a large, soUd head, with outside leaves a delicate green, and inside head a fine light color of 

 superior quality. Pkts., 5 and lOc; ounce, 15c.; K lb., 35c.; lb., $1.00. 



Wavahead Lettuce shows a remarkable combination of earliness, firm heading character, handsome appearance and 

 fine quality. Both in cold-frames early in the spring 

 and in the open ground — in spring, summer and early 

 fall months — it has proved to be not only the very 

 earliest and surest heading of all early lettuces ever 

 grown, but also of the very finest quality at all seasons. 

 Wayahead is not only eariier than "May King" and 

 other choice extra earlv varieties, but the heads are 

 also larger in size and more tightly folded. The outer 

 leaves are a light green, while all the inner leaves of 

 the head are nicely blanched to a rich buttery-yellow 

 tint; it stands a longer time before running to seed 

 than any other early head variety. Supply very short. 

 Per pkt., 5 ani lOc; ounce. 20c.;'H lb., 60c. :1b., $2.00. 



Summer King Lettuce 



Summer King Lettuce. It produces immense 

 heads, often 15 and 16 inches across, and weighing 

 enormously. The interior is beautifiilly blanched, 

 creamy-white, crisp, tender and delicious, being abso- 

 lutely free from any trace of bitterness. It is a 

 very large, robust-growing variety, rooting deeply, 

 resisting hot, dry -weather, very slow to ruu to seed 

 and a stire header under most trying conditions. The 

 outer color is of a distinct applegreen. As a stand- 

 ard main summer crop, hot weather Lettuce it is in 

 every way desirable and has no equal, but is not 

 recommended for forcing. Price, 10c. pkt.; 25c. oz.; Grand Rapids Lettuce 



^K^ 



pfP^^ 



1 



^r^ 



■' '" jfei%' 



1 



^B^ 





■5 



1 



