Try Bronze Beauty Lettuce 
LEAF LETTUCE 
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Pkt. will sow 50 ft. row 
Leaf lettuce may be sown in open ground as soon as soil can be worked. Sow seed 1% inch deep and thin 
to 6 inches. Additional plantings may be made at three week intervals throughout the season. 
Bronze Beauty is a new All-America lettuce, having received the 1947 Bronze Medal. Bronze Beauty is 
an oak-leaf type which has always been associated with high quality. You should try Bronze Beauty under 
your conditions. 
We have tested Slobolt and find that it does remain in edible condition longer than other varieties. We 
recommend that you also try Slobolt. 
Black Seeded Simpson is the standard green variety for the home garden, while most market gardeners seem 
to prefer Grand Rapids, especially for greenhouse culture. 
Prizehead is very fine quality but its brown color confines its use to the home garden. 
«220 BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON: 45 days. Plants 223 SLOBOLT: 45 days. A strain of Grand Rapids 
are large, attractive, compact, with broad, frilled type selected for its slow bolting character. Similar 
light green leaves that are of fine crisp texture and to Grand Rapids in appearance and quality. Pkt. 
sate Ghat ae Too tender os forcing under glass 15 cts.; % oz. 30 cts.; oz. 40 cts. 
or market. a0 ets. 02: ok WA Mey, 58 4 
Ib. $1.85; 10 Ibs. $17.50. Pe secest oes 224 BRONZE BEAUTY: 42 days. A crisp, tender 
lettuce with an unusually tasty nut-like flavor. 
221 GRAND RAPIDS: 42 days. Plants are large, up- Plants are vigorous, well formed and uniform in 
right, compact and bright solid light green. Leaves height. Leaves are long, neatly arched with margins 
are large, broad, tender, and the margin much waved deeply lobed and scalloped. Their color is a ruddy 
and frilled. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; 14 lb. 60 cts.; bronze. Pkt. 25 cts.; 4 oz. 40 cts.; 4 oz. 75 cts.; 
Ib. $2.00; 10 lbs. $19.00. oz. $1.45. 
*222 PRIZEHEAD: 48 days. Plants are medium 
large, strictly loose-leaf. Leaves are broad, crump- 
led and frilled. Outside leaves are tinged with red, 2 : ete 
inner leaves wholly green; very crisp, sweet and a uWehaveused your seed ever since we haye/had a farm which i 
tender. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; % lb. 65 cts.; Ib. March 27, 1946 Tou Bo Daring 
$2.00. : Rock Stream, N. Y. 
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HEAD LETTUCE 
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Pkt. should produce 200 plants 
1 oz. should produce 3,000 plants 
Head lettuce in most sections does not head well in the heat of the Summer. Best results are obtained when 
seed is sown inside about March 15th and transplanted to open ground May Ist to 15th. Set plants 12 to 16 
inches apart in 18 inch rows. 
May King is a small, sure heading lettuce suitable for the home garden. Great Lakes and Cornell 456 are 
commercial iceberg type varieties that are especially resistant to tip-burn and are bred to head better under hot 
weather conditions than will Imperial 44. Great Lakes produces a larger plant than Cornell 456 and is becoming 
increasingly popular in many localities. 
*230 GREAT LAKES: 86 days. Plants are large 233 IMPERIAL No. 44: 82 days. A variety having 
and vigorous; head of good size and attractive dark long, well folded leaves and hard, well formed heads. 
green color. Leaves wrap very tightly around the This variety heads well in warm weather and is 
head. Pkt. 15 cts.; % oz. 40 cts.; oz. 55 cts.; % resistant to tip burn. Pkt. 15 cts.; oz. 35 cts.; 4% 
Ib. $1.65; lb. $5.50; 10 Ibs. $52.50. Ib. $.90 cts.; lb. $3.10; 10 lbs. $30.00. 
234 WHITE BOSTON: 76 days. A butterhead type 
*231 MAY KING: 66 days. An early butterhead that has taken the place of Big Boston. Paucar 
lettuce. Plants small, allowing very close planting, smooth and straight on the edges. Plant and head 
light green tinged slightly with brown. Head entirely light green; heart buttery yellow. Pkt. 10 
medium small, round, firm; interior rich golden yel- cts.; oz. 30 cts.; 14 Ib. 65 cts.; lb. $2.00; 10 Ibs. 
low, buttery, and of splendid quality. Pkt. 10 cts.; $19.00. 
oz. 30 cts.; % Ib. 75 cts.; Ib. $2.50. 
240 COS or ROMAINE, White Paris Self Folding: 
70 days. A medium large, well blanched, firm, loaf 
232 CORNELL 456: 82 days. Developed by the , , 
United States Department of Agriculture and Cor- eg Paes Mie der cons a . es oes pane flat vat 
nell University, Cornell 456 has proven very sure Pkt 10 ee OF Bees wy, eee ¢o pies ity. 
heading when grown in the East during the Summer 10 Ib $23 50. cts.; 4 lb. /o cts.; lb. $2.50; 
months. Frame and head slightly smaller than 2 ede _ 
Great Lakes and of lighter green color. Resistant 
to tip burn and early bolting. Pkt. 15 cts.; % oz. nee Foes we esterogy your catalogue was presented as 
40 cts.; oz. 55 cts.; 4 lb. $1.65; 1b. $5.50; 10 lbs. me ebeuare 271 EVE ee a cae pear. Ruse Pe Brover 
$52.50. “The Anvil”, Kennett Square, Pa. 
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