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Kureka, Liv., ’86, was a very distinct summer lettuce 
with foliage strongly washed with bright red, and formed: 
fine, large and enduring heads. 
Finest Moss Curled Dam., ’86, closely resembled our 
‘Curled Cutting, but the leaves were perhaps more finely 
cut. 
Large Yellow Coblentz, Dam.,’86, rather closely resembled 
Brown Stubborn Headed, but was distinctly smaller in size. 
Maddaloni, Dam., ’86, Syn. Speckled Early Dutch Butter- 
head, Land., 86; Yellow Red Fringed, Dam., ’86, was a 
rather small, dull green, poor heading lettuce, with the 
inner leaves slightly washed with brown. It ran to seed 
immediately after heading and was strong in flavor. 
Oak-Leaved, Beyer,:’86, was paler in color, larger in size, 
and much slower in running to seed than the Oak-Leaved 
of our list. 
Perpignan, Dam., ’86, was a large, fine heading variety, 
of which the leaves were rather distinctly spotted with 
brown in the young plant, but the spots disappeared at a 
later stage of growth. | 
Potenza, Dam., ’86, was a Cos lettuce, of the Paris Cos 
type, but with the peculiar brownish-green color of the 
Brown Batavian. 
The American Giant Dam.,’86, and American Giant Brown 
Edged, Ben.,’86, synonyms of our White Batavian were very 
poor strains of that variety, heading poorly and soon running 
toseed. The Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage, Greg., ’86, was 
by far the finest strain of this excellent lettuce that I have 
seen. 
The Forcing Emperor Earliest Yellow, Ben., ’86, very 
closely resembled our Dippe’s Emperor, but the plants ran 
to seed without heading. 
From the test of the past season, it is evident that the 
Hanson of our 1885 list is really not distinct from the Curled 
Simpson, and that our Stone Head Golden Yellow is the 
‘same as Golden Stone Head. 
EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS. 
In order to economize space, the following abbreviations 
of the names of seedsmen and nurserymen are used in the 
reports of the horticulturist and assistant horticulturist. 
An abbreviation of the name of a seedsman attached to 
a variety with a date, indicates that the seed was obtained 
from that source, in the year specified, and under the name 
to which the abbreviation is appended. When no date is 
appended, it is understood to be 1886. In the case of fruits 
the abbreviation indicates the source of the plants. 
