Descriptive Catalogue of Garden and Flower Seeds. 
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LETTUCE— CONTINUED. 
and care. For use in summer months, sow in rows i foot apart about the middle of April, in open 
ground, and thin out the plants to i foot apart. 
Seed sown in hotbeds in March will, if kept 
from cold, make good plants by April. For 
main early crops, seed may be sown in the 
open ground in the middle of September, and 
transplanted into coldframes when large 
enough to handle ; then treat same as cold- 
frame cabbage, and plant out in early spring. 
Early Curled Simpson. (White-seeded.) 
A leading early market sort. Pkt. 5 cts. , 
oz. 15 cts., X'b. 30 cts., lb. $1. 
New Iceberg. Quick-growing ; heads hand- 
some, crisp and tender. We have no better 
early Lettuce. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., \iVo. 
60 cts., lb. $2. 
Early Curled Silesian. A leading variety 
for cutting. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., Xlb 
30 cts. , lb. $1. 
White-Seeded Tennisball. (Boston Mar- 
new market lettuce. ket.) Good for forcing. Pkt. 5c., oz. 15c., 
!Tlb. 40c., lb. $i. 
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White Cabbage. Fine handsome heads ; a good Lettuce I 
Speckled Dutch Butter. A fine forcing Lettuce ; a great favorite 
with truckers . • • 
Denver Harket. Large, attractive, solid heads of fine quality . . 
Deacon. A large solid-heading Lettuce for summer 05 
Blonde Blockhead. Hard, compact heads of rich golden yellow . 
Thick-Head Yellow. Heads well, and is one of the finest .... 
California Cream Butter. It forms round solid heads of green, 
with brown spots ; within the leaves are bright yellow 
Burpee’s Hardhead. One of the hardiest-heading, and one of the 
best of all Lettuces 
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LEEK. 
German, iiaucfy. French, Poireau. i oz. will sow 200 hills. 
The Leek is very hardy and easily cultivated ; it succeeds best in a light but well-enriched 
soil. Sow as early in the spring as practicable, in drills 1 inch deep and 1 foot apart. When 6 
or 8 inches high they may be transplanted in rows 10 inches apart each way, as deep as possible, 
that the neck, being covered, may be blanched. If fine Leeks are desired, the ground can 
hardly be made too rich. „ _ .... . . 
1 Pkt. Oz. Jflb. Lb. 
Broad London Flag. A popular variety Jo 05 to 20 $0 50 li 25 
Monstrous Carentan, or Scotch Champion. A choice variety 
of very large size, and rapid growth ; hardy 05 20 50 1 50 
MARTYNIA. 
1 oz. for 200 hills. 
A strong-growing annual, bearing curiously-shaped seed-pods, which 
when young and tender make excellent pickles. Sow in the open ground in 
May, and thin out the plants to 2 or 3 feet apart ; or a few seeds may be 
sown in a hotbed and afterwards transplanted. 
Pkt. Oz. tflb. Lb. 
Martynia proboscldea Jo 10 Jo 30 $1 00 Jj 00 
MUSTARD. 
German, ©eitf. French, Moutarde. i oz. to 75 feet of drill. 
A pungent salad, used with cress. The seeds are used for flavoring 
pickles, etc. Sow in April thickly in rows, and cut when 2 to 3 inches high. 
For use during the winter, it may be sown in succession in boxes, in green- 
houses or in frames. Oz. K' b - Lb - 
White. Best for culinary purposes and for salads . . $0 05 $0 15 $0 30 
Black, or Brown. Stronger than the white 05 15 30 
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