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S. S. Big Boston Lettuce 



Big Boston is the most generally used Heading Lettuce in this country. Our S. S. strain is selected stock 

 which every year is grown for us in California, where the cool breezes from the Pacific make the chmatic conditions 

 as near perfect for Lettuce seed cultivation as can be found. The selected type of the matured plant has very 

 compact, well-defined, broad, well-blanched heads with very broad outside Iea^•es, mostly smooth and having a 

 light brownish red border. Big Boston will mature in seventy-eight days from the sowing of the seed. The heads 

 will weigh approximately one pound under normal conditions. The seed is white in color. The quality of Big 

 Boston is only fair and, therefore, is recommended as a market-garden variety, although its reputation carries 

 it into a good many home gardens. It succeeds especially well in either spring or autumn but is not recommended 

 as a summer variety. It is a splendid shipper, sure header, reliable and hardy. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., Vi^b. 65 cts.> 

 lb. $2. 



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Bigger Big Boston 



Anj'One desiring a Lettuce of the Big Boston type which is slightly larger in its growth, but otherwise having 

 the same general characteristics, could do no better than plant Bigger Big Boston. The past season's results of 

 our market-garden trade with this variety, which was introduced by Walter P. Stokes three years ago, ha^•e been 

 very gratifying. Bigger Big Boston will mature in about the same time as Big Boston, and has very much the 

 same general appearance except for the size of the head. It is especially advised for early spring or late summer 

 planting as it has a tendencj* to blast under midsummer heat. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., V^lb. 65 cts., lb. $2. 



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