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All Lettuce—Packet, 5c; oz., 15c, postpaid 
Crisp, tender lettuce, the most desirable of all 
salad plants. Can best be grown with the strictest 
attention to its moisture, soil and climatic require¬ 
ments. There are many varieties and types of lettuce, 
however for the home gardener we can segregate 
them into two varieties, namely, head variety and 
looseleaf variety. The first is by far the most de¬ 
sirable but the most difficult to grow. The second is 
less desirable but so much easier to grow that most 
beginners will do well to select one of its varieties. 
Lettuce can easily endure several degrees of frost 
especially in the seedling stage which greatly facili¬ 
tates the handling in the early spring. However this 
popular vegetable cannot be grown in extreme heat. 
Any good garden soil will grow lettuce of a sort 
but the most favorable soils are rich sandy loam. 
Some varieties like Grand Rapids do best on good 
heavy soils with considerable clay in them. Lettuce 
soils should not be acid, if they are in this condition 
they should be limed. However, more important than 
the texture of the soil is the problem of moisture. 
If this is not available do not attempt to grow this 
vegetable. 
HEADING VARIETIES 
Portland Seed Co.’s Crispette. Heads are 
large, firm, crisp and tender. Bright green, curly 
leaves cover the outside. Solidity of the heads is in¬ 
sured by the large, white main ribs of leaves which 
curve toward the center. Withstands hot weather far 
better than most varieties and exceedingly tasty. 
Packets, 5 c 
New York or Wonderful. The best head lettuce 
for market gardeners. It’s large, very solid, tender, 
crisp and sweet. Beautifully blanched to a creamy 
white with bright green outer leaves. A very hardy 
and rapid grower, also, deep rooted. Packet, 5c. 
Hanson (Improved Hard Heading Stock). One 
of the very best. The heads are green on the outside 
and cream colored on the inside. It withstands the 
hot sun very well, and stays crisp for quite some 
time. Packet, 5c. 
Other Varieties. Brown Dutch, New York 12, 
Big Boston. 
LOOSE-LEAF VARIETIES 
Grand Rapids. This variety is the standard hot¬ 
house lettuce for forcing. It also does exceedingly 
well in the open ground. The leaves are light yellow¬ 
ish green, slightly crimped, crisp and tender. 
Packet, 5c 
Simpson’s Early Curled. Very fine for early 
planting and forcing. The leaves are finely curled 
and wrinkled. It is very tasty and crisp and does not 
wilt readily. Packet, 5c. 
Black Seeded Simpson. The leaves form a 
close, compact mass. Yellowish green color and ex¬ 
ceedingly curly. Very early cultivated. Packets, 5c 
Other Varieties. Chicken Lettuce, Prizehead. 
SIMPSON’S EARLY CURLED LETTUCE 
All Cucumbers—Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c, postpaid 
Gardeners with limited space cannot afford to 
plant cucumbers, which for outdoor culture must be 
planted in hills at intervals of at least 4% feet each 
way. The plant is a sprawling tendril-bearing vine. 
It requires considerable heat, a lot of moisture and 
a rich soil. Cucumbers are much more sensitive to 
frost than most vegetable crops. They can only be 
grown in regions that not only have plenty of heat 
but a frost-free period of 75 to 90 days. 
Warm sandy loam especially if it has a gentle 
slope southward is the best soil for out-door cucum¬ 
bers. No other method of fertilizing is so satisfactory 
as putting 2 quarts of thoroughly rotted manure 
under each hill or a scant wheelbarrow load is bet¬ 
ter. Broadcasting manure or fertilizer for plants 
spaced so far apart is merely wasteful. 
See that the manure is covered sufficiently so that 
no seed touches it. This is easily accomplished by 
forming a circular hill about a foot wide and 4 
inches deep over each lot of buried manure, the site 
of which had better be marked with a stick, if some 
days intervene between burying and planting time. 
Planting cannot be done until warm or hot 
weather is assured. Plant six seeds to each hill ex¬ 
pecting to reduce them to three as soon as germina¬ 
tion is complete, selecting the three best plants. The 
seed should be planted about 1^ inches deep. 
As the vines become large they will fill all of the 
space between the hills, so it is very important that 
you cultivate thoroughly while the plants are still 
young. 
Diamond Long Green. Truly the outstanding 
of the large varieties. It is extremely crisp and ten¬ 
der, sweet, very fine for slicing. It is best for sweet 
pickles when matured, Packet, 5c. 
Improved White Spine. An outstanding vari¬ 
ety for table use. It is one of the early types and ex¬ 
ceedingly tasty. Uniformly straight and handsome 
light green fruits, with a few white spines. 
Packet, 5c 
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