THE LEAF LETTUCES 
For bowl-tossed leafy salad blends we like these lettuces, 
their flavor, their texture, their mixing qualities. They 
are quick-growing, too, and good served in wide diversity 
of ways. 
308 BLACK-SEED SIMPSON—Of excellent quality, large 
bunches of tender, crispy, frilly leaves. You ean start 
cutting it when it is small. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; %4 lb. 60c. 
306 PRIZEHEAD—Attractive loose-leaf variety, red-tinged 
without. Foliage curled, crimped, brittle, decidedly good. 
Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 60c. 
307 GRAND RAPIDS—Most handsome of Lettuces, bright 
green leaves excessively frilled, curled and crisped. Very 
good quality. Popular with both home gardeners and 
market growers. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 65c. 
THE HEAD LETTUCES 
No secret to growing fine Head Lettuce, anyone can do 
it. Just sow early on good soil, keep it growing thriftily 
and without check, and above all, thin carefully, one 
plant to a place, intervals of six to ten inches, 
upon soil fertility. 
303 HANSON—A sure and good 
erisp-head for home garden use. 
Splendid salad quality, brittle, 
juicy; pleasant, mild flavor. 
Pkt. 10c;:1 oz. 25c; 4% Ib. 7T5c. 
304 NEW YORK  515—Perhaps 
choicest of the several good Let- 
tuces of the Iceberg section, a 
high-quality solid crisp-head of 
very large size, blanching to 
snowy whiteness, flavor distine- 
tively cool-sweet, leaves that 
snap like ice flakes. Somewhat 
frilled. Rarely tip-burns, and 
thrives under wide range of 
weather conditions. Jllustrated 
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39°99 IMPERIAL 44 — Splendid 
“‘Iceberg’’ variety that produces 
firm, round heads of high quality. 
Does equally well on muck or 
good upland soils, and is re- 
sistant to summer heat. Market 
growers 1 ke this one, too. Pkt. 15¢; 1 oz. 35c; % Ib. $1.15. 
310 MAY KING—Earliest of the butter-heads. Quickly 
makes firm little heads that blanche to creamy richness. 
Pkit 10¢ se 0z., 20c. 
311 WHITE BOSTON—Most popular variety of the “but- 
ter’ section, making very tight, firm, ball-like heads that 
blanch to creamy yellow, the leaves rich-flavored and ten- 
depending 

der. Adaptable to rather wide range of growing condi- 
tions. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25e; 4 Ib. 85e. 
301 MIGNONETTE — Attractive, dependable little home 
garden butterhead of the very highest salad quality. Rather 
early. Outer leaves dark green with red tones, inner 
creamy white. Pkt. 10c; I oz. 25c.-- 
312 SALAMANDER—Most heat-resistant butterhead, so for 
summer. Hard, solid ball-heads that blanch to brittle 
butteriness. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25e; \% lb. 75ce. 
365 COS TRIANON—A ‘self-folding Romaine, by many 
esteemed as best flavored of all. Distinctive, foot-long, 
upricht heads... Pkt. 10cs 1-o075.25c. e 
300 CELERY-LETTUCE 
This is the famed CELTUCE, an unusual, tall-growing 
Chinese variety in which the leaves, though of salad value, 
yield precedence to the succulent stems. These are used 
by peeling and eating celery-fashion with salt, or when 
broken into fragments, with salad dressing, or they may 
be cooked in manner of Asparagus or Broccoli. Flavor is 
quite distinctive, many find it delicious, to others it does 
not appeal. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c; 10 for $1.25. 
296 LEEK 
The most tender and delicately flavored of the onion 
relatives. It makes a long, very thick stem that is 
blanched by drawing earth to it. Sow in early spring in 
rows 18 inches apart, thinning ta 4 inches in row. LON- 
DON FLAG variety. Pkt. 15¢; 4 oz. 25c; % oz. 465c. 


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MUSTARD 
Two quite distinct vegetables grouped here, 
both needed. 
376 FORDHOOK FANCY—Deep green ostrich-plume leaves, 
handsomely curled and fringed. Delicious as salad or 
greens. Make three spring sowings at ten day intervals. 
Then in August start sowing again. Brassica juncea 
crispifolia. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 15c; %4 Ib. 45c. 
377 TENDERGREEN — Elongate leaves, tender, and of 
delicate, mild flavor when used as greens. Quick as a 
Radish, ready to cut within 25 days after sowing, and 
holds then in good condition for many weeks before go- 
ing to seed. Summer heat has little effect on it. Brassica 
perviridis. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz 15c; %4 Ib. 45ce. 
432 PARSNIP 
Parsnips taste mighty good in early spring, the only 
vegetable you can harvest from your garden in March. 
Remember they will stand over winter right where they 
are grown, even in Canada. Freezing improves texture, 
makes flavor sweeter and richer. High quality in Par- 
snips comes from growing them 
in deep, loose, rich soil. Sow 
early. Then if they grow thrift- 
ily and without check, they will 
be tender, core and all. We 
offer seeds of a re-selection from 
Hollow Crown, in which we are 
trying to hold the high quality 
of that variety while approach- 
ing the smoother, shorter form 
of Guernsey. We call it CROWN 
GUERNSEY. Try it. Pkt. 10e; 
1 oz. 20ce; 4% Ib. 65e3; 1 Ib: $2.40. 
WATERMELONS 
Even easier to grow 
Muskmelons. Try them 
can find room. 
360 DIXIE QUEEN—Now Dixie 
goes north, for this handsome, 
high quality melon is’ early 
enough to ripen in all save the 
more. difficult northern locations. 
Flesh is brilliant red, crisp, 
sugary, good right to the rind. 
; Outside, the fruits are light 
green, striped dark green. Form is blocky; weights often 
reach 40 Ibs. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c: Y% Ib. 70c; 1 Ib. $2.40. 
358 EARLY NORTHERN SWEET—So early that it ripens 
In even those short-season far northern areas where Water- 
melons have been thought impossible. Fruits to 10 Ibs., 
dark green, striped lighter. Pink flesh, crisp, deliciously 
sweet. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; % Ib. 60c. 
356 HALBERT HONEY—Claimed to be sweetest of sall 
Watermelons. Large, oblong, dark green fruits. Fine- 
grained crimson flesh; concentration of honey, Pkt Loe: 
1 oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $1.65. 
357 WINTER MELON—Round fruits, ivory white outside, 
very heavy. for the ten-inch diameters. Within, the meat 
is bright pink, Juicy, yet so firm and brittle that it breaks 
in crystalline fracture. Of almost sugary Sweetness. Rea- 
sonably early. It keeps well, can be stored in a dry cool 
place until well past Christmas, but in our own garden 
we eat them as fast as they ripen. They’re too good to 
both easy, 
than 
if you 
store. This variety is our own especial favorite. Pkt. 
L0G se lsoz..20c: 
362 TOM WATSON—Dark green, 12 by 20 inches. Meat 
red, high quality. Splendid market sort. 
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359 GOLDEN SWEET—A 
Halbert Honey, ppearance, 
of red. 
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size and quality of 
but here the meat is golden yellow instead 
Pkt: 10¢ "1.02.6 ibe. 
355 SPECIAL STONE MOUNTAIN—Crimson meat, richly 
sweet. Big, blocky, gray-green fruits. Early enough for 
the north. Wilt-resistant. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; % Ib. 70c. 
363 PRESERVING CITRON—-Solid, crispy white meat, used 
os ay sweet pickles and preserves, or candied. Pkt. 10c; 
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