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Henderson's 

 Big Boston 

 Lettuce 



It is Praised by all Users 



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"Enclosed we hand you a photograph of out 



Big Boston Lettuce field. We had the finest 



Lettuce grown around here and took the first prize 



at our County Fair. The heads were like cabbages." 



A. ZIMLICH, Mobile, Ala. 



"I had some of your Big Boston Lettuce last, 

 year and it was fine, simply grand. " 



Mrs. M. STEWARD, HoUidaysburg, Pa. 



"I send you a picture of my field of Big Boston 

 Lettuce sown from your seed. It paid us belter 

 than $1,000.00 per acre." 



MANTON H.4.LL, Fulton, N. Y. 



"I have grown your Big Boston Lettuce and 

 never had any other as good. " 



Mrs. JESSIE WILLIAMSON, 



Santa Rosa, Cal. 



" Your Big Boston Lettuce is a grand success. 

 I don't think that there is a lettuce to beat it. I 

 have sotne that look like cabbages." 



R. L. RICE, Sunrise, La. 



"The Big Boston Lettuce was a splendid suc- 

 cess — hardly a head weighed less than Z lbs. while 

 many weighed 5 lbs." 



MAJOR W. H. NASH, Vancouver, Wash. 



"I never saw and never expect to see any better 

 Lettuce than your Big Boston. Some of them 

 weighed 5 Ihs. as cut off the ground." 

 H. 0. BEST, 



Sugar Ward. Salt Lake City, Utah. 



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HENDERSON'S 



Big Boston Lettuce 



A GRAND LARGE CABBAGE LETTUCE 



For Either Midsummer or Fall Use. 



Big, Compact, Tender and Crisp, Creamy- White Heads. 



THIS grand variety, introduced into cultivation by us several years ago, has proved 

 to be most valuable, steadily gaining in popularity until it is now more extensively 

 grown than any other kind of Lettuce, either for the private table or for sale, 

 North, South, East or West ; whether grown in the open ground for summer and fall use, or 

 in frames for spring, or forced cool in greenhouses for winter use, 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. 

 This grand variety makes a handsome plant, with but few outside leaves, and stands long 

 before bolting to seed. Although Big Boston is one of the best large-heading midsummer 

 Lettuces, it is also peculiarly adapted for cool open-ground culture ; large areas of it may 

 be seen in the vicinity of New York as late as Nov. 15th; a slight covering of salt hay 

 amply protects the plants from hard frosts, and 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; 

 as far north as Maine it is a wonderfully popular summer Lettuce; in fact, we know of 

 no other variety that gives such general satisfaction under so many varied conditions. 

 {See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 25c. oz., 70c. I4 lb., $2.00 lb. 



We deliver Free in the U. S. yf:I^?iLllZTo°Zi: all Vegetable, Flower and Lawn Seeds, also Books xr^'e 



where 

 noted. 



