Lettuce Is One of Floridans Most Important Fall and Winter Truck Crops 
LETTUCE 
Sotc }/2 to 1 pound in seed-bed to plant an acre, or plant 1 to IY 2 pounds per acre in field. 
Culture. First sowings are made in Florida the beginning of 
September and continue until March. Low, damp soil is best 
suited for this crop. Lettuce must be grown rapidly in order to 
give it size, tenderness, crispness, and high edible quality. There¬ 
fore, the land must be highly fertilized and moist. In Florida 
from one to two tons per acre of 4-5-5 fertilizer is commonly used 
for this crop. Broadcast the seed on good moist beds that have 
been tborougbly prepared, or sow in rows six inches apart and 
use a light roller to press the seed into the soil. A pound of seed 
sown broadcast plants a bed three feet wide and a hundred yards 
long. Place burlap or well washed old fertilizer sacks over the 
beds until the seeds sprout. Old fertilizer sacks must be thor¬ 
oughly washed out before using to prevent burning of seed 
sprouts. Be sure seed beds are kept thoroughly moist at all limes 
after the seed is planted, and during warm dry weather the beds 
should be sprinkled twice daily with cool water in order to 
hasten and increase germination. In hot weather when it is dif¬ 
ficult to get lettuce seed to germinate, germination may be 
hastened and improved by placing moistened lettuce seed in 
moist cloth in the icebox for several days before sowing, and then 
sowing in well moistened soil. In level culture lettuce plants are 
usually set 15 by 15 inches in the field. Plants should be watered 
as set in field. 
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ICEBERG. (74 days.) A very popular variety of the crisp 
heading type. Produces large, very firm, hard, well-blanched, 
globular heads. This variety does not bolt to seed as readily as 
other sorts. The leaves are very broad, thick, quite blistered and 
crumpled, with finely frilled borders, and are of medium green 
color, with faint brown tracing on the extreme borders. Head is 
pure white inside, very hard, brittle, very sweet, and of ideal 
quality. This variety should not be confused with the familiar 
shipping variety. New York, which is commonly called Iceberg 
by produce shippers and handlers. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; 40c; 1 lb. $1.25. 
KILGORE’S BRED-RITE NEW YORK NO. 515. (New.) 
(68 days.) This new strain of the New York or Iceberg type is 
the surest heading type we have found, and in our trials this year 
every plant made a good solid head, even during hot weather. 
This lettuce is a little earlier than New York No. 12, which it 
resembles in general appearance. We believe that this new strain 
will make an excellent companion crop to New York No. 12. The 
heads are large, solid, attractive, and bright green in color. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; ^Ib. 45c; 1 lb. $1.50. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite New York No. 515 
A New Strain of the Iceberg Type Especially Developed 
For Florida 
KILGORE’S BRED-RITE NEW YORK NO. 12. 
(70 days.) New York No. 12 has been especially developed to 
withstand the heat and high humidity common to Florida and 
the southeastern states. Our tests indicate that this strain when 
grown on well prepared soil in Florida will develop large, very 
solid, crisp heads just as good as any Iceberg type lettuce grown 
in the west. This type is growing in demand on the northern 
markets. For best results, this variety should be grown more 
slowly, with less ammonia fertilizer, and with less soil moisture 
toward maturity, than is required by Big Boston and other 
varieties of lettuce. It should be planted to mature in cool 
weather. This lettuce should be shipped and marketed in west¬ 
ern lettuce crates, not in hampers. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; I4lb. 45c; 1 lb. $1.50. 
KILGORE’S BRED-RITE BIG BOSTON. (70 days.) This 
Bred-Rite strain is the finest and truest type of Big Boston it is 
possible to secure anywhere. Our trials each year indicate it to 
be absolutely free of mixture. The heads are of cabbage or butter- 
head type, large-sized, broad, slightly spreading, globular, with a 
broad shoulder at the base. Tbe outer leaves are broad, almost 
smooth, but wavy at the edge, medium light green with a tinge 
of brown on tbe margins of the outer leaves. It is early and 
hardy and stands shipping very well. The heads are brittle, 
buttery, and the interior is a beautiful golden yellow color. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; Mlb. 30c; 1 lb. $1.00. 
KILGORE’S IMPROVED WHITE BOSTON. (68 days.) 
Similar to our Bred-Rite Big Boston, although a trifle earlier 
and slightly lighter shade of green without the brownish tinge 
at the borders of the outer leaves. Our improved strain has been 
developed to produce large-sized heads similar to Big Boston. 
Its bright green market appearance, with freedom of red tinge 
on the leaves, is making this strain popular as a shipping sort. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; Mlb. 45c; 1 lb. $1.50. 
MIGNONETTE. (65 days.) This is an early maturing, ex¬ 
ceedingly high quality, small, crisp head lettuce. Because of the 
small size of the heads, it is not grown for commercial shipments, 
but there is no better variety of head lettuce for the southern 
home gardener or for local markets than this one because of 
its exceedingly high edible quality, it being deliciously sweet- 
flavored, crisp and tender. This variety is the most popular 
heading variety for the West Indies, it being especially well 
suited for production in the tropics, because it withstands hot 
weather growing conditions, always producing hard, round heads 
with white hearts, and being slow to go to seed. Tbe outer leaves 
are much crumpled, dark green color, tinted with reddish- 
brown. The plant is small and compact. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c; Mlb. 50c; 1 lb. $1.75. 
ROMAINE (WHITE PARIS COS OR TRIANON COS). 
(70 days.) This variety forms a large, medium green, well- 
folded bead with blunt top, and when properly grown it is very 
sweet, crisp, mild, and of fine quality. Crows very erect and 
compact. Tbe leaves are long, narrow, thick, and smooth, with 
broad, thick midribs. The elongated head is loaf-shaped, com¬ 
pact, solid, with greenish-white, blanched interior. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; ^41b. 40c; 1 lb. $1.25. 
BLACK-SEEDED SIMPSON. _ (60 days.) The best large, 
very early, non-heading or leaf variety. It will do well when it is 
too warm to grow the heading sorts. The leaves are very broad, 
much blistered and crumpled, and excessively frilled on the bor¬ 
ders, light yellowish green in color, never brownish, very tender, 
of fine delicate texture, and of excellent quality. This is the 
most widely used of all lettuce varieties for southern home gar¬ 
dens, and is especially well suited for production in the West 
Indies and the Tropics, where because of the heat most head 
varieties do not do well. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; MIb. 30c; 1 Ib. $1.00. 
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THE KILGORE SEED COMPANY, The South’s Leading Seedsmen 
