LEAF LETTUCE for BOWL SALAD 

LETTUCE—BIG BOSTON 
A Prize for Poultrykeepers 
NEW CHICKEN LETTUCE. Here is a genuine 
Lettuce which will yield as much or more 
chicken or rabbit feed as any “greens” plant. 
When once cut it starts to grow again. The 
leaves can be pulled off each stem like a kale. 
Chicken Lettuce does not make a head, but 
sends up a stout stalk three or four feet high, 
just loaded with leaves. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15¢; 
Vy Ib., 40c. 
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BLACK-SEEDED SIMPSON (40 days). More re- 
liable and easily grown during summer than 
other varieties. Very crisp, buching large, late 
intermediate sort. Plant compact, with firm, 
well blanched, rounded cluster of leaves, 
which are broad, blistered and crumpled thick 
and coarse. Color light green, never spotted. 
Sweet, somewhat hard and coarse in texture. 
Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; 1% Ib., 40c. 
CULTURE. Lettuce can be grown in Texas 
all the year round; to grow fine heads the 
ground has to be good, and have plenty of 
moisture. For an early crop sow in frames in 
January or February and plant out in March, 
giving them space in accordance with the size 
of the Lettuce. For summer crop, grow where 
sown, thinning out to six or eiaht inches apart. 
BIG BOSTON. Our strain of this very popular 
variety is unsurpassed, Plants are large and 
vigorous, leaves light green, slightly tinged 
with reddish brown; stands very long before 
shooting to seed. Can be grown in the open 
ground in the spring or fall, or in frames for 
early spring planting; does particularly well 
in cold weather and is especially recommend- 
ed for fall planting in this section. Is very 
popular with gardeners and truckers, because 
it always produces large, solid, salable heads, 
up at all seasons of the year and is of crisp, 
tender quality. Pkt., 5c: oz.. 15c: Y% lb., 40c. 
SIMPSON’S EARLY CURLED (Seed white). A 
very extensively used early, loose leaved, or 
clustering variety. The leaves are light green 
in color, slightly frilled and much blistered 
crisp, sweet and tender. The sort is especially 
adapted for sowing thickly and cutting when 
ie plants are young. Pkt., 5c¢; oz., 15c; Y% lb., 
ice 
ICEBERG. A large, crisp Lettuce, always 
tender; stands hot weather remarkably well. 
Well known and largely planted standard 
summer cabbage-heading Lettuce of very best, 
crisp quality; sure heading and reliable. 
Large, late in season. Leaves very broad, 
fairly blistered, crumpled, very thick. Color 
light green, except faint brown along extreme 
border. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c: 1% lb., 40c. 
WHITE PARIS COS OR ROMAINE. This type 
of Lettuce forms long, upright heads of narrow 
leaves. Very crisp and sweet; self-closing and 
quite solid. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; 1% Ib., 40c. 
MELONS ARE RICH IN VITAMINS 
CULTURE. Plant in hills five to six feet apart, 
dropping ten seed to the hill; thin out to three 
plants to the hill; cultivate until the vines 
cover the ground, and pinch the ends off the 
early shoots to induce early fruitina. 
IMPROVED PERFECTO (90 days). Excellent 
shipping and market gardener’s melon; im- 
mensely productive. Fruits 512 inches long, al- 
most round; very uniform; solidly covered 
with grayish netting; no indication of ribbing. 
Flesh extremely thick; rich deep salmon- 
orange; fine grained; juicy, sweet and of ex- 
cellent aromatic flavor. Pkt., 5c; oz., l5c; % 
lb., 40c. 
HALE’S BEST. Extremely early, prolific, good 
shipper, about 10% larger than the Rocky 
Ford types. Flesh salmon and of exceptional 
thickness. Heavily netted and fairly prominent 
ribs. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; 1% lb., 40c. 
HONEY BALL. This variety is of the Honey 
Dey type, but is smaller and earlier than that 
variety. Fruits round, smooth, free from ribbing 
and are yellowish white when ripe. The flesh 
is very thick and of silvery green color. Al- 
though of rather sweet sugary flavor it has 
somewhat more of the spiciness of the green 
fleshed cantaloupes than Honey Dew. Pkt., 5c; 
oz., 15c; 1% lb., 50c. 
NETTED GEM or ROCKY FORD. This has be- 
come one of the most popular of small or crate 
melons and is shipped in large quantities from 
Colorado and Arizona. It is also a desirable 
medium early sort for the home and market 
garden. The vines are vigorous and produc- 
tive. The fruits are oval, slightly ribbed, 
densely covered with fine netting. The flesh 
is green, very sweet and highly flavored. We 
offer an exceptionally fine stock of this early 
sort, the fruit being very uniform in shape and 
quality and of the even size that is so de- 
sirable in a shipping melon. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c¢; 
%y lb., 40c. 
TEXAS CANNONBALL No. 114 (Green Flesh). 
This splendid muskmelon is especially adapted 
for home garden and nearby markets. Pro- 
duces medium sized melons in about 75 days. 
Round, medium in size, heavily netted. Flesh 
is green, very solid, melting and of a delicious 
flavor. If you have found it difficult to grow 
muskmelons, try this variety. It succeeds 
peg others fail. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; Y% Ilb., 
Cc. 
‘HALE’S BEST 



Staffel’s Muskmelon Seed 
Are Grown in Rocky Ford, 
Colorado 



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FERD STAFFEL CO.,SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 
