LETTUCE 
HEAD LETTUCE 
Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 40c, 4 Ib. $1.20. 
Butter Lettuce (Big Boston). Heads of medium size with broad 
glossy leaves, wavy-edged and slightly tinted with reddish-brown. 
Popular for home gardens. 75 days. 
Great Lakes Lettuce. A remarkable new ‘All-America’ selec- 
tion that has made a place for itself. Produces solid heads that 
are white and crisp. Superior in quality. Pkt. 25c. 
Iceberg. Delicious heads of large crumpled leaves. Interior 
closely packed, sweet and white. Leaves tinged with brown. 84 
days. 
New York Market (Los Angeles). Most successful during the 
cooler weather. Tender and excellent quality. Leaves dark green, 
slightly curled at the edges. 80 days. 
Romaine or Cos. Self-folding variety making a solid head. Crisp, 
sweet and tender. Excellent flavor. 66 days. 
LEAF LETTUCE 
Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 30c, 1% Ib. 90c. 
Prizehead. Popular non-heading variety. Leaves crisp and ten- 
der, greatly frilled at the edges. 47 days. 
Mignonette. New. Leaves in compact bunches, medium green 
with bronzy tints where exposed to the sun. Decidedly different 
in flavor. 67 days. 
MUSKMELON Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c. 
Casaba. Medium large, late season. Fruits with wrinkled yellow 
rind; flesh white, luscious and spicy. 110 days. 
Honey Dew. Large globe shaped fruits with smooth hard creamy - 
white rind and green flesh, thick, juicy and tender. 112 days. 
WATERMELON 
Klondike. Dark green rind and rich red sweet juicy flesh. 80 
days. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c. 
ONIONS Pkt. 10c, oz. $1.00. 
Red Torpedo. Large, long onions pointed at both top and bot- 
tom. Bright red, mild flavored. 100 days. 
Sweet Spanish. A large globe shaped brown onion, weighing | 
to 3 pounds. Small tops. Mild and sweet. Good for slicing. 
Most popular marketing onion. 
White Bunching or Pickling. The best variety for green onions. 
Crisp and mild, attaining a large size before bulbs form. Ready 
in about 30 days 
Yellow Globe Danvers. Excellent yellow globe onion. Flesh firm 
and white with a slight yellow tone. Medium size, dependable. 
110 days. 
ONION SETS 
We offer the best quality northern grown sets, carefully cleaned, 
graded and packed. Plant deep for green onions and shallow for 
dry onions. 1 pound will plant 50 feet of row. 
Ask or write for prices. 
PARSLEY Pkt. 10, oz. 20c. 
Extra Triple Curled (Moss Curled). Popular variety with deep 
green tightly curled leaves.. 
PEAS Pkt. 10c, Y2 Ib. 30c, 1 Ib. 50c. 
Melting Sugar, Edible Pod. The broad flat, fleshy pods are string- 
less and contain about 7 peas. They are cooked, pods and all at 
any stage before peas are ripe. 74 days. 
Laxton’s Progress. Best of the early dwarf peas. Pods blue-green 
containing about 8 dark green peas. Fine quality. 62 days. 
Tall Telephone (Alderman). Very prolific and wilt resistant with 
plump dark green pods. Excellent quality. Pods contain 8 to 10 
peas. 74 days. 
Dwarf Telephone. Grows about two feet tall resembling the Tall 
Telephone in every respect but for its intermediate ripening. 
PEPPER Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 75c. 
California Wonder. The best sweet pepper. Plants vigorous, 
producing excellent crops of large green thick fleshed high qual- 
ity peppers. 75 days. 
Long Red Cayenne. Strong and pungent, long twisted and point- 
ed peppers much used for drying and seasoning. 70 days. 
RADISH Pkt. 5¢ and 10c. 
Early Scarlet Globe. Very early. Bright scarlet globe shaped roots 
with tender, crisp white flesh. 23 days. 
Long White icicle. Long slender roots. Tender and crisp until 
full grown. 27 days. 
SEED POTATOES Ask for Prices. 
We usually have the following varieties at the proper planting 
time in spring: 
British Queen, Burbank, Netted Gem, White Rosz, Early Red. 
SPINACH Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c. 
New Zealand. For warm weather makes a plant of creeping or 
bushy habit with leaves much like spinach. Seeds are large and 
should be soaked a day in water before planting. 70 days. 
Nobel or Giant Thick Leaved. Rapid growing with very large 
thick succulent leaves. Excellent home garden variety. 45 days. 
SQUASH Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c. 
Early Summer Crookneck. Excellent for home planting. Bushes 
are very productive. Squashes crooknecked, deep yellow warted 
on the surface. Pick while small, 4 to 6 inches long. 52 days. 
Banana. A late twining sort, large cylindrical with deep yellow 
dry and sweet flesh free of fibre or stringiness. Makes fine pies. 
Rind thin, slate-grey. 105 days. 
Improved Hubbard. Large warty Hubbard type with dark green 
rind and dry richly flavored light orange flesh. One of the best 
winter squashes. 100 days. 
Table Queen or Danish. This is the small dark green acorn shaped 
squash so delicious baked in the oven. Light yellow flesh. Early 
maturing, 58 days, and easy to grow even as a summer squash, 
Trailing variety. 
Zucchini. A delicious summer bush squash. Although the 
squashes get quite large they are best picked when 4 to 6 inches 
long. A few hills will supply a family the entire summer. 60 days. 
TOMATO 
Start seeds in flats or seed beds from January to March and trans- 
plant to the garden as soon as the weather is warm. Soil should 
be well enriched with manure or fertilizer. Better, cleaner fruits 
result if plants are trained on a trellis. 
Pkt. 10c, Y2 oz. 40c, oz. 75c. 
Earliana. Very early, almost seedless and solid medium size fruits. 
Vines open and bearing large crops. 65 days. 
Improved Stone. One of the best for table and canning. Vines 
vigorous bearing quantities of large, flattened deep red fruits. 
Fine flavor. 86 days. 
Marglobe Improved. Excellent, thrifty and heavy productive 
tomato. Fruits large, deep scarlet, uniformly globe shaped, 
smooth, solid. 77 days. 
Pearson. Smooth and flattened globe shaped fruits with thick 
scarlet skins. 115 days. 
Ponderosa or Beefsteak. Late tomato especially suited to home 
gardens. Vine vigorous, open and wilt resistant. Fruits large, flat 
and bright scarlet. 90 days. 
Victor. Luscious smooth solid fruits of excellent flavor. A very 
fine tomato for the home garden. 110 days. 
TURNIP 
Purple Top White Globe. Excellent variety for all purposes, 
globular turnips white with upper third a rich purple. Ready 
for table use in 55 days. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c, Va Ib. 60c. 

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