‘NORTHRUP, KING & CO.S VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS - ® 
LETTUCE—Loose Leaf Varieties 
Black Seeded Simpson 40 days 
A-nationally popular variety. It is light 
green colored, with inner leaves almost 
white. Good for spring and early summer 
culture. Large growth, excellent quality. 
Chicken (for feeding chickens) 
A very hardy, rapid growing sort. Pro- 
duces flower stalks early. Furnishes an 
abundance of leaves over a long period. The 
largest lettuce plant but lacks in eating 
quality. 
Early Curled Simpson 40 days 
_ White seed. Especially popular in home 
gardens. Large compact plant, light lus- 
ROMAINE, COS or 
Paris White Cos 
trous green broad leaves, frilled. Crisp, 
sweet and excellent for salads. 
Grand Rapids 45 days 
Black seed. One of the most popular non- 
heading varieties. Curled, crisp, light green 
leaves are especially tender and sweet when 
grown under glass. Early, disease resistant. 
Prizehead (Reddish Leaves) 45 days 
White Seed. An early, very rapid grower. 
Very popular for home gardens. Curly, 
non-heading, crisp, medium size with bronze 
on edges of outer leaves, inner leaves 
wholly green. 
CELERY LETTUCE 
60 days 
White seed. A strong grower and very productive, with long, shell shaped, medium 
green leaves of most excellent quality. A self-folder, but when plant is over half grown it 
is best to tie it up with string so that the inner leaves may be blanched perfectly white. 
Head 8 to 9 in. high, long loaf shaped. 
MUSKMELON and CANTALOUPE 
The number of days after each variety refers to the period required to ripen fruit, from 
seed planted in the open ground. 
Green Fleshed Varieties 
Delicious Gold Lined 90 days 
A green fleshed melon of the Rocky Ford 
type. Oval in shape, covered with heavy 
grayish netting. Seed cavity small, flesh 
thick and firm. Variety obsolete. 
Pollock Ten-Twenty-Five 90 days 
A Rocky Ford type, early, vigorous, and 
of good quality. Flesh golden at the cen- 
ter and shading to green at the rind. Fruits 
Orange or Salmon 
Fleshed Varieties 
Banana 
94 days 
A long variety tapering at both ends. 
Skin is lemon colored when mature. Pink 
flesh, delicious eating quality. Size 14x4 in. 
Weight 5 to 7 Ibs. 
Bender’s Surprise 
87 days 
A large size melon weighing 7 to 8 lbs. 
Round shaped, deeply ribbed with coarse 
netting. Flesh very thick and sweet. An 
excellent home garden and shipping variety, 
growing well in almost all sections. 
broad oval about 5% in. long and 4% in. in 
diameter. No ribbing. Thickly covered with 
netting. Obsolete variety. 
Rocky Ford or Netted Rock 92 days 
A comparatively small green fleshed 
melon of about two pounds, oval type, slight- 
ly ribbed. Flesh thick with gold tinge at 
center. Juicy and of excellent flavor. Outside 
covered with hard gray netting. 

Bender’s Surprise 
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