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W. F. Allen’s Plant aaiid Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
BJG BOSTON.—A very popular variety with gardeners 
who want a large heading forcing sort, and also for outdoor 
winter culture ; the plants are large and very hardy and vigor¬ 
ous, with broad, smooth, thin and very hardy leaves, which 
are bright light green in color, and when well grown are quite 
tender ; indoors this forms a solid head, while outdoors it is 
less distinctively a heading sort. This is grown in the South 
as a winter lettuce. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; quarter pound 25c; 
pound 80c. 
ALLEN’S IMPROVED HANSON.—A beautiful heading 
sort, intermediate with loose leaved and cabbage varieties; 
the heads are very large, of fine form, deliciously sweet, ten¬ 
der and crisp, even of the outer leaves; color green outside, 
and white within. Free from any bitter or unpleasant taste. 
Pkt. 5c ; oz. 10c; quarter pound 30c; pound $1.00. 
1 NEW YORK.—A beautiful deep green color, forming 
arge heads, sometimes two or three pounds in weight; suit¬ 
able for summer use, and is very slow to run to seed. Pkt. 5c; 
0 z< 10c; quarter pound 25c; pound 80c. 
GRAND RAPIDS.—This variety is beautiful in appear¬ 
ance ; excellent for garnishing and is very tender and crisp ; 
a strong growing variety that retains its freshness a long time 
after being cut; as a forcing variety for winter and early 
spring use this stands at the head of the list; it is beautiful 
in appearance. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; quarter pound 25c; pound 
80c. 
ALL THE YEAR ROUND.—Bears the heat of midsum¬ 
mer well, also good for forcing ; one of the best for market; 
g.ood for either spring or fall planting. Try it. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 
^Oc; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 
DEACON.—Plants make firm heads, nearly as large and 
almost as solid as cabbage : the heads are light green outside, 
while the inner blanched portion is a beautiful creamy yellow; 
of delicious, rich, buttery flavor. This magnificent lettuce 
stands hot' weather better than any other of the varieties, 
pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 
WHITE SEEDED TENNIS BALL OR BOSTON HAR= 
KET —Plants of medium size and quick growth ; heads well in 
cool locations and during the full, but if planted late in the 
spring or summer is apt to run to seed without heading; large¬ 
ly grown during the winter under glass for head lettuce. Pkt. 
5c; oz. 10c ; quarter pound 25c; pound 80c, 
CRISP-AS-ICE LETTUCE. 
PHILADELPHIA BUTTER.—It is extremely hardy and 
heads well during cool spring and fall weather; a popular 
cold frame variety, largely grown for early spring market in 
the vicinity of Philadlephia, the plant being set in the frames 
late in Ihe fall and producing good, large, solid, finely blanched 
heads early in the spring; an extremely hardy variety. Pkt. 
5c ; oz. 10c; quarter pound 25c; pound 80c. 
PRIZE HEAD.—This hardy variety is of superb flavor, 
bright green color tinged with brownish red; this is not a 
heading variety, but forms a mammoth plant in which even 
the outer leaves are crisp and tender. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 10c; 
quarter pound 25c ; pound 80c. 
CRISP=AS=ICE.—This is a beautiful lettuce of the cab¬ 
bage type; the solid heads are of large size and the leaves are 
so tender and brittle as to have suggested the name bestowed 
upon it; the head has a rich yellow heart; the leaves are 
thick and glossy; somewhat curled and of a good and attractive 
green color, varigated with bronze. Crisp-As-Ice can not be 
over estimated or over praised for home use in spring or sum¬ 
mer. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; quarter pound 30c; pound $1.00. 
MUSK-MELON OR CANTALOUPE . 
BURRELL GEM -This is a combination of the following varie¬ 
ties: Osage, Defender, Pocky Ford;and Aetna, and more particular 
the Defender and Aetna. It is the result of the personal efforts of D. Y. 
Burrell, the originator, to produce an ideal market melon. Such a 
melon requires the development of many vital points. 
It has a tough, thin rind, well arched ribs, covered 
with a closely laced and interlaced gray netting. The 
blossom end is protected with a well developed but¬ 
ton. Shape quite elongated, the diameter from stem 
to blossom being one-third more than from top to 
bottom; Meat of a reddish orange, very thick, fine 
grained g.nd spicy, not containing too much water or 
acid. Seed cavity small, triangular, the seed closely 
held in place in three lobes. (This is one of the first 
points to consider in the shipping melon, as if the 
fibrous growth containing the seeds is not well de¬ 
veloped, the seeds soon shake loose and the melon 
quickly begins to decay.) 
The average weight is about 2% lbs.; the length 
six inches and the thickness 4 )i inches. As to 
whether I have succeeded in this, I refer you to what 
the trade papers, wholesale dealers and consumers 
say. That they pay well the account sales prove. 
The demand for them is established, and the planter 
who grows them and the dealer who is fortunate 
enough to get them to hapdle this coming pea son, will 
have an inside chance with the trade. On Oct. 5th, 
R. T. Cochran & Co., 'of New York City, sold 8fl 
dozen Burrell Gem for $1,251.25 : on October Pth the 
same party sold 735 dozen for $1,227.50; th^se two 
shipments netted clear of expenses $1,573.28, or 
nearly $ L00 per dozen. A number of otb r r ship¬ 
ments were equally as well, and in fact, some were 
even better. If space would permit. I could give 
two or three pages of such figures as these. 
Under date of Nov. 7th, 1905, 1 received the f ol- 
