
Lettuce Imperial 847 
Heading varieties 
Be sure and try the new ae Lakes Lettuce 
‘ 82 days. Produces fine; round-shaped 
Colorado Special heads; good, bright color; not ribby. A 
sure heading sort. Some report 90 to 95 per cent harvested. We 
know of no lettuce having better quality. It withstands heat well. 
We recommend it as the best for Colorado mountain growing. 
(Pkt., 10c) (0z., 30c) (%4 Ib., 90c) (Ib., $3.20) (5 Ibs., $14.10) prepaid 

83 days. Shows much promise at a late spring, 
Great Lakes hot weather variety. Plants large, vigorous, with 
distinctive, deep, grassy-green appearance. Heads large, compact, 
solid; with abundant wrapper leaves. Indications are, it will stand 
higher temperatures, and not bolt as readily as 847 and 44. It is less 
subject to bottom-rot, tip-burn, and slime-rot. An All-American 
selection. 
(PkKt., 10c) (0oz., 60c) (% Ihb., $1.85) (1b.s $6.50) 
e 83 days. Very popular in the Hast and South for 
Imperial 847 market garden and shipping. Resistant to brown 
blight: Heads round, well-folded, crisp, medium size. Leaves smooth, 
thick, medium light green. 
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82 days. One of the surest heading sorts now 
Imperial 152 grown. Size same as regular New York, possibly 
slightly more flattened. A good solid heading variety which blanches 
into almost a pure white color. Resistant to Brown Blight soil 
troubles and very hardy. Used extensively as a first planting in the 
fall in Arizona and the first planting in the Imperial Valley. 
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- S6 days. One of the largest growing varieties. 
Imperial 615 Very dark green in color and well adapted to 
winter cropping in Imperial Valley and Arizona. Not recommended 
as a summer variety. Resistant to brown blight. 
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+ S2 days. Developed for use in the eastern states 
Imperial 44 and found valuable there because of its ability to 
make good solid heads during warm weather. Our seed crops made 
very solid heads instead of bolting to seed like most other heading 
sorts would during midsummer weather. Heads small, compact, and 
solid, somewhat subject to tip-burn under our growing conditions. 
(Pkt., 10c) (0z., 30c) (% Ib., 90c) (Ib., $3.20) (5 Ibs., $14.10) prepaid 
81 days. An early variety well adapted 
New York No. 515 to summer and early fall production. It 
is resistant to tipburn and withstands hot weather even better than 
New York No. 12. Heads slightly smaller than No. 12 and less ribby; 
compact, attractive and remains in shipping condition a long while. 
An improvement on New York No. 12. 
(Pkt., 10c) (0z., 30c) (% Ib., 90c) (ib., $3.20) (5 Ibs., $14.10) prepaid 
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