DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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La gc India Head —This variety attains a large 
-ire the plants frequently measuring eighteen inches in 
diameter The heads are not solid but are white with 
in crisp and tender, and not bittet wuh*. - ’5 heat 
nod drought well 
Ferry's Early Prize Head 
H anson. —The heads are of very large size delicious- 
i\ sweet tender and crisp even to the outer leaves. 
C0101 green outside and white within , free from any 
bitter or unpleasant taste. 
Early White Head.—An excellent variety for hot¬ 
bed culture, as well as open air; early and hardy. 
Heads small, white, crisp, very compact and closely 
cabbaged 
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Early White Head. 
Early Curled Silesia. — Am early variety of very 
strong growth leaves large. iighi yellow, wrinkled It 
makes a large, loose head, of fair quality. 
Frankfort Head — A dark green curled variety with 
tiose round heads which cut open finely blanched and 
very crisp. It remain', a long time m head , seeds black 
produced very sparingly. 
Large Drumhead —Heads remarkably large some¬ 
what flattened, compact • pale green without, and white 
at the center, crisp and tender . one of the finest sum¬ 
mer varieties : seeds white 
White Paris Cos — A variety largely - fertile 
London and Paris markets. The hrads art long, upright 
t arly Cur'ed Silesia 
with oblong leaves It is very' hardy of large size, and 
long in running to seed tender brittle and mild-fla- 
vored 
Large (Jiumhead 
Culture. — A very rich soil is necessary to produce 
fine head Lettuce. Its crisp and tender quality depends 
very much on a luxuriant and vigorous growth. The 
earliest sowing may be made in March, under glass, 
with slight heat Keep the plants thin, and admit 
plenty of aix to the frame every fine day. For later 
Wh'te Pans Cos 
supplies sow in the open ground as soon as the season 
will permit , transplant 01 thin out the plants gradually 
to a loot apart and keep well cultivated 1 he early va¬ 
rieties, if sown early in the spring, aie c.pt to run up 
quickly to seed, so the head varieties arc more suitable 
foi summer use. 
MARTYNIA. 
A strong-growing, hardy, annual pla.it,\vith curious- 
shaped seed-mods, which, v/hen youn and tender, are 
h "hV priz d • y many for pickling he pods arc pro- 
