
Great Lakes Lettuce 
ENDIVE 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 4 to 5 Ibs. per acre. 
Sow about the middle of April, in rows 
1% feet apart, and thin out to about 9 
inches apart. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 30c. 
Broad-leaved (Escarolle). Leaves long, 
_ broad, and succulent. Fine for winter 
salads and cooking. 
Large Green Curled (Pink Ribbed). Outer 
leaves bright green, midribs tinged with 
rose. Center leaves blanch readily. 
Makes attractive salads. Vigorous and 
resistant. 
; KALE, Borecole 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 4 to 5 Ibs. per acre. 
that of late cabbage, but as the plants 
will withstand several degrees of frost, 
¥ they can grow late into the fall. Many 
think kale best after the first heavy frost. 
Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 60c. 
F 
Dwarf Green Curled Scotch. (55 days.) 
Plants have wide-spreading, finely curled 
blue green plume-like leaves. Relished 
4 as a vegetable green and useful as an 
ornament. 
Tall Green Curled Scotch. (60 days.) 
Hardy plants with leaves deeply cut. 
Curled at the edges, light green in color; 
very tender and finely flavored after 
touched with frost. 
4 Jersey or Thousand Headed. Called 
Chicken or Cow Kale. Vigorous branch- 
ing plants with enormous cabbage-like 
leaves. Relished by poultry and livestock 
as winter greens. 
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KOHL RABI 
¥% oz. to 100 ft., 4 to 5 lbs. per acre. 
- The delicious flavor of this turnip- 
shaped bulb combines both cabbage and 
turnip. As early in spring as possible, 
sow the seed in light rich soil in rows 1% 
_ feet apart. When plants are well estab- 
lished, thin to 6 inches apart in the row. 
Pkt. 10c; 1 0z. 50c. 
Early White Vienna. (55 days.) For 
- forcing. The best table sort if used when 
the bulbs are 2 inches in diameter. It 
matures very early and produces medium 
sized light green bulbs with white flesh 
of excellent quality. 
LEEK 
Large American Flag. An early popular 
sort. Stems 8-10 inches long, 14% inches 
- thick; white, and attractive. Leaves 
large, medium green, drooping backward. 
Pit. 10c; oz. $1.00. 
LETTUCE 
1% oz. to 100 ft., 3 Ibs. per acre. 
Sow the seed in hotbeds during Febru- 
ary until the middle of March, afterward 
transplanting into flats or coldframes, 
leaving about 6 to 8 inches between the 
plants. As soon as weather becomes suit- 
able, transfer to open ground and set out 
in rows 1 foot apart, leaving 9 inches be- 
tween the plants in the rows. 
Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 40c; %4 Ib. $1.20. 
Bibb Lettuce. (57 days.) Rather small 
heads used as forcing lettuce in the 
south. Leaves are smooth, dark green, 
heart butter yellow. Excellent quality. 
Great Lakes (83 days.) A heading variety 
of the Imperial type developed by U. S. 
Department of Agriculture and Michigan 
Experiment Station. Leaves large and 
well folded; ribs heavy. Shows consider- 
able resistance to tipburn and ability to 
head under adverse conditions, Pkt. 25c. 
Improved Hanson. (82 days.) A very 
hardy lettuce, excellent for a summer 
crop as it withstands heat. Forms a 
large, light green head which is very 
hard. An excellent variety for the home 
gardener for it is very sweet, crisp and 
tender. 
Imperial No. 152. (Mature in 83 days.) 
Medium large, solid and attractive heads. 
Well adapted for early fall planting and 
dependable in heading. Resistant to 
brown blight. 
New York No. 515 Improved. A develop- 
ment from Number 12, matures slightly 
earlier. Resistance to tip-burn makes 
this lettuce ideal where hot weather pre- 
vails. 
Red Leafed Mignonette. 80 days. These 
small crisp heads of early lettuce have 
curled outer leaves of medium green 
tinged with reddish-brown. They are 
compact with .a blanch light creamy- 
yellow color throughout. 
LEAF LETTUCE 
Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 30c; %4 Ib. 75c. 
Black Seeded Simpson. (45 days.) A good 
non-heading or cutting lettuce with 
broad, light green, frilled outer leaves. 
Center leaves are almost white. Crisp 
leaves with a delicate flavor. 
Grand Rapids. Very early. Hardy, dis- 
ease resistant. The most widely used and 
best adapted variety for greenhouse 
forcing. Plants large, upright, compact, 
and handsome; bright solid, light green, 
large leaves with broad, much frilled 
margin. Very tender and sweet when 
grown under glass. 
Oak Leaf. Shaped like an oak leaf. 
Stands up well in hot weather and does 
not turn bitter. Pkt. 15c. 
Red Leaf Prize, An early non-heading 
sort, very desirable for home garden use. 
Plants of medium size, crisp and tender; 
color medium green with brownish-red 
edges on outer leaves. 

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Muskmelon, Rocky Ford 
MUSKMELON 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 3 to 4 lbs. per acre. 
In sections where the summers are 
short, seed can be planted indoors or in 
hot beds in small boxes. The young plants 
can be transferred to the garden when 
danger of frost is past. If practicable, 
spade in a liberal forkful of well-rotted 
manure at the bottom of each hill. The 
rows should be at least 6 feet apart and 
the hills 3 feet apart in the rows. In 
general, the culture is the same as that 
for cucumber. Pkt. 10e; 1 oz. 25c. 
Cranshaw. (96 days.) A _ thick-fleshed 
melon with salmon color inside, golden 
green outside. Round at base, stem end 
pointed. Weighs 7 to 8 pounds. 
Hale’s Best Improved No. 36. (80 days.) 
Fruits slightly oval, weight 3 to 4 pounds. 
Flesh exceptionally thick, deep salmon in 
color, sweet, aromatic and of very fine 
quality. Uniform in shape. 
Hale’s Best, Jumbo Strain. An outstand- 
ing shipping variety. Fruits slightly 
oval, uniform. Flesh exceptionally thick, 
deep salmon in color; sweet, and of very 
fine quality. Has a delightful aroma. 
Ripe in 75-80 days. 
Hearts of Gold. (100 days.) This popular 
medium sized melon follows the earlier 
varieties. It is fine to plant for succes- 
sion as it ripens in about 100 days. The 
fruits are 5 to 6 inches in diameter. The 
smooth orange salmon flesh is exception- 
ally thick and fine flavored, 
Imperial No. 45. (87 days.) Extensively 
used because of resistance to downy mil- 
dew. Similar to Hale’s Best but only 
faintly ribbed. An exceptionally good 
shipper. 
10c; 1 oz, 20c. 
Rocky Ford or Netted Gem. (92 days.) 
Fruits are small with rather large seed 
cavity, nearly round; no ribs, and heavily 
covered with hard gray netting. Flesh 
thick, green in color with gold tinge at 
the center. Juicy, spicy, and of good 
quality. 
OTHER MELONS 
Casaba. (110 days.) The casaba is a melon 
for the late season after the muskmelons 
are past. Fruits are medium, large, globe 
shaped, weigh 6 pounds; outer color 
golden yellow, surface wrinkled. Flesh 
white, luscious and spicy. 
Honey Dew. (112 days.) A very fine 
melon, Fruits large globular, weigh 5 to 
7 pounds. Surface is smooth, hard, with 
practically no netting, creamy white. 
Flesh light emerald green, thick, ripen- 
ing to the rind; juicy and tender, with a 
distinct sweetness not found in other 
melons. 
Persian. (115 days.) A late, slow grow- 
ing variety. Fruits globular; rind very 
dark green, netting fine but sparse. Flesh 
thick, orange-pink in color. Of a distinct 
and delicious flavor. 

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