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1 POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS ( 
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Lettuce 
One ounce will sow about one hundred square feet and 
produce three thousand plants. 
MATER'S “ALE-RIGHT” LETTUCE. Produces 
beautiful large solid heads, of the finest quality, at all seasons 
of the year. See Novelties, page C. Pkt., 15c.: oz., 40c.: X A 
lb., $1.25; lb., $1.00. 
HORNBERGER’S DUTCH BUTTER. This variety 
is a greatly improved strain of the Dutch Speckled Butler, 
made by a well-known Philudelphiumurkctgurdencr, highly 
prized for early spring and autumn sowing, producing crisp, 
white, very large solid heads, almost equal to a cabbage m 
size and weight; the outer leaves are speckled with a brown¬ 
ish tinge. It is an elegant forcing variety, or for growing in 
cold frames, and stands heat and cold to a remarkable degree. 
Pkt., 10c.; oz., ‘25c ; 34 lb., 70c.; lb., $2.25, 
REICIINER’S EARLY TVHITE BUTTER, or 
RIDGE LETTUCE. The result of several years’ selection 
made by the Reiehners, who nre among the best market gar¬ 
deners around Philadelphia. It is one of the best forcing let¬ 
tuces, as well as one of the best for sowing in open ground, 
and for planting on ridges, being entirely hardy. Produces 
fine, large, white solid heads of superb quality. Pkt., 10c.; 
oz., 20c.; 34 lb., 50c.; lb., $1.75. 
NEW TREASURE. This new and distinct lettuce forms 
a fine, large, solid head, with leaves of a rich, creamy-yellow 
color, which are very tender and bnttcrv in flavor, surpassing 
nearly all other sorts in fine quality. It is a fine early lettuce 
and also one of the best summer varieties, being extremely 
slow to shoot to seed. It is sure to delight all planters who 
grow it. Pkt., 10c.; oz., '25c.; 34 lb., 75c.; lb., 52.50. 
Till-: MORSE LETTUCE ON A 7).j HAT. 
The Morse Lettuce 
This most excellent now Lettuce might be called an im¬ 
proved Black Seeded Simpson, except from the fact that the 
sccdiswhitc. It grows to a large size, nsshownin photograph 
above. The outer leaves are of a beautiful light green, while 
within they blanch to a beautiful light yellow. It withstands 
summer heat splendidly when grown outside, and is earlier 
than the curled and most head varieties. Market and private 
gardeners who grow the curled varieties will find the New 
Morso superior to them all. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 20c.; 34. lb., 00c.; 
lb., 51.50. 
New Sensation Lettuce 
This remarkable variety, first introduced by us some years 
since, has rapidly grown in popularity until it has become the 
leader in our sales of seed among gardenors. It is valuable 
for growing in cold frames, and in open ground during the 
summer months. No other lettuce thrives so well, withstand¬ 
ing the hottest weather in a remarkable degree. It is a beau¬ 
tiful light yellowish-green color, leaves muon blistered on tin* 
surface, and has the peculiarity of forming a solid head,even 
before half grown. Its uniform, handsome and even growth 
is unequalled, and it is one of the easiest to grow. Pkt., 10c.; 
oz., 25c.; lb., 70c.; lb., S2.25. 
