■PETER HENDERSON &. CO., NEW YORK- 
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Henderson's 
Big 
Boston 
Lettuce 
Grow Like Cabbages 
It is Praised by all Users 
Quality Superb 
Tender, Crisp 
and Sweet 
More Extensively 
Grown than any 
other Lettuce 
Henderson's 
Big Boston Lettuce 
THE BEST HEAD 
LETTUCE on EARTH 
"Enclosed we hand you a photograph of our 
Big Boston Lettuce field. We had the finest 
Lettuce grcnvn around here and took the first prize 
at our County Fair. The heads were like cabbages." 
A. ZIXILICII, Mobile, Ala. 
“/ had some of your Big Boston Lettuce last 
year and it was fine, simply grand." 
Xlrs. M. STEWARD, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 
“/ have grown your Big Boston Lettuce and 
never had anv other as good. " 
Mrs. JESSIE WILLIAMSON, 
Santa Rosa, Calif. 
“ Your Big Boston Lettuce is a grand success. 
I don't think that there is a lettuce to beat it. I 
have some that look like cabbages. " 
R. L. RICE, Sunrise, La. 
"The Big Boston Lettuce was a splendid suc¬ 
cess—hardly a head weighed less than 2 lbs. while 
many weighed 3 lbs." 
MAJOR W. II. NASH, Vancouver, Wash. 
“/ never saw and never expect to see anv better 
Lettuce than your Big Boston. Some of them 
weighed o lbs. as cut of the ground." 
II. 0. BEST, 
Sugar Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
J Must say that your Big Boston Lettuce is a 
good one for they grow like cabbage and are very 
crisp and good flavored. I intend planting a lot 
this year." GEORGE SPREA D BOROUGH, 
Sarsdenficld, Camber ley, 
Surrey, England. 
HENDEKSON'S 
BIG BOSTON LETTUCE 
A GRAND LARGE CABBAGE LETTUCE 
For Either Midsummer or Fall Use. Big, Compact, Tender and Crisp, Creamy-White Heads. 
T HIS grand variety, introduced into cultivation by us several years ago, has proved 
to be most valuable, steadily gaining in popularity until it is now more extensively 
grown than any other kind of lettuce, either for the private table or for sale, 
North, South, East or West; whether grown in the open ground for summer and fall use, or 
m frames for spring, or forced cool in greenhouses for winter use, it invariably gives both 
grower and user the utmost satisfaction, producing during all seasons, under ordinarily 
favorable conditions, splendid large buttery-yellow heads, packed with thoroughly 
blanched leaves, crisp, tender, sweet and white, delighting both the palate and the eye. 
1 his grand variety makes a handsome plant, with but few outside leaves, and stands long 
before bolting to seed. Although Big Boston is one of the best large-heading midsummer 
lettuces, it is also peculiarly adapted for cool open-ground culture; large areas of it may 
be seep in the vicinity of New York as late as Nov. 15th; a slight covering of salt hay 
amply protects the plants from hard frosts, and when cut for market the leaves are as 
fresh, bright and untinged as if in midsummer. Thousands of acres of it are grown 
during the winter in Florida and other Southern States for shipping to Northern markets; 
as far north as Maine it is a wonderfully popular summer lettuce: in fact, we know of 
no other variety that gives such general satisfaction under so many varied conditions. 
{See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 25c. oz., 70c. % lb., $2.00 lb. 
Our SUCCESSION COLLECTION of Lettuces offered on page 32, is worthy of your attention 
