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LETTUCE— LATE BUTTERHEADS THAT RESIST 
MIDSUMMER HEAT 
T HE connecting link between the early butterheads 
and those on which planters may depend to form heads 
as late as the season will permit is California Cream Butter. 
This is one of the most dependable of all lettuces, al- 
ways forming handsome, solid heads of exceptional qual- 
ity in sixty-five to seventy days from date of planting. 
From seeds sown end of April it will furnish delicious 
salad until middle of July, when All Seasons, as shown 
above, will be in its prime. Many call this the Black 
Seeded Deacon and it is surely superior to old Deacon in 
heat-resisting qualities. All Seasons differs from all 
other sorts suggested so far by being of a distinctly uni- 
form shade of deep green. Ready in seventy-five days. 
Speckled Dutch Butter is valuable because it matures 
more slowly. Thus, when nearly all the heads in a row 
of All Seasons are ready, only a few of Speckled Dutch 
Butter sown at the same time will have reached full size. 
The latest of this group is Brown Dutch, a dark green sort, 
heavily shaded with dark brown tints which denotes both 
heat and frost resistance. A week later than All Seasons. 
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