SELECTED SEEDS FOR HOME AND MARKET GARDENERS 19 


Crisp as Ice 
A fine variety of head lettuce. Grows medium size 
head. Grows well in hot weather when other varieties 
will bolt to seed. Heads are well blanched and of 
delicate flavor. Leaves are thick and crumpled similar 
to the iceberg type. Outside leaves are tinged with 
brown. 0z2., .385; 4% lb., $1.25; 1 Ib. $4.00. 
(A) Imperial No. 44 (New) 
This new Iceberg type lettuce developed by the U. S. 
Dept. of Agriculture. This variety is suitable for up- 
land soils as well as muckland. Imperial No. 44 pro- 
duces a large hard head very uniform in size. Trials 
have proven that it has produced a good percentage of 
hard heads when other varieties have failed. Pkt. ae Es 
0z., .40; 4 Ib., $1.50; lb., $5.50. 
74 days 

IMPERIAL F LETTUCE 
MUSKMELON 
Hearts of Gold 
~ An ideal shipper and desirable mid-season 
melon for home gardeners. Medium sized, vig- 
orous, blight resistant"and productive. Fruits 
nearly round, 5 in. in diameter, slightly ribbed, 
netted densely, small seed cavity. Flesh is thick, 
firm and of delicious flavor. Pkt., 0537 0Z2., elo: 
1% Ib., .45; 1 Ib., $1.30. fe. 3 
90 Days 

HEARTS OF GOLD 
94 Days 
(A) Bender's Surprise 
MUSTARD 
Fordhook Fancy 
_ Large upright growing plant, leaves ex- 
ceptionally large and thick. Oz., .10; 4 
1D i. LD... 80; 
ONION 
Plant 44 ounce to 100 feet of drill, 3 to 5 
A large size melon weighing 8 to 10 lbs. Round 
shaped, slightly ribbed with coarse netting. Flesh 
very thick and sweet. An excellent home garden 
and shipping variety, growing well in almost all 
Bectiols:: Pkt., .10;°07:;°.20; 14° ib.; .40; 1 Ib., 
S125: = e 
ferent quality may be so unequal in the 
pounds per acre, except Sweet Spanish and 
jike varieties, 13, to 2%.-For sets, 40 to 80 
pounds to the acre. felt aa eae 
In onion culture, thorough preparation of 
the ground, careful sowing and the best of 
after culture, though essential for a full 
yield, will avail nothing unless seed of the 
best quality is used. Given the same care 
and conditions, the product from two lots 
‘of onion seed of the same variety but of dif- 
quantity of marketable onions that it would 
be more profitable to use the good seed, 
though it cost twenty times as much as the 
other. The seed we offer is the best obtain- 
able. Although onions are often raised from 
sets, by far the best and the cheapest.mode 
of production is from seed. The facility with 
which seed is sown and the superior bulbs 
it produces recommend it for general use. 
- ONION—YELLOW VARIETY 
Brigham Yellow Globe 
_ A desirable onion with fine keeping qualities. 
Good flavor, 
14 Ib., $2.70. 
blockier type than the Yellow Globe Danvers. 
Bods BEAK li? OZ. <¢as 2 Oz; $1.40; 
109 Days 
Globular with round bottom, a deeper, 
plants partially resistant to 
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(A) RECOMMENDED VARIETIES 
