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| Burgess oice Lettuce 
One ounce of seed to 400 feet of row; 3 pounds to the acre. 
ALL YEAR ROUND. 70 days. A popular variety with medium size heads. 
made up of thick, light green leaves. The heart blanches to golden yellow 
and has a delicious, rich, buttery flavor. A sure header and slow to run 
to seed. : 
BIG BOSTON. 75 days. The best head lettuce for forcing under glass, 
and one of the best for outdoor planting. Produces medium size, solid 
heads, of excellent quality; sure to head, 
BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON. 43 days. A popular curled or loose-leayed 
sort for early outdoor planting. Used extensively by market gardeners. 

EARLY CURLED SIMPSON, or SILESIA. 42 days. (White sceded.) 
. A very early, hardy and dependable loose-leaved sort. Especially popular 
for home gardens. Plants large, compact, light lustrous green; leaves Oak Leaf Lettuce 
broad, frilled, firm, crisp, sweet and of good quality. 
prod GRAND RAPIDS. 43 days. The best loose-leaved sort for forcing un- OA K L EA F 
der glass and an excellent variety for outdoor planting. 

38 days. Should be in every garden. Oak Leaf is 
neither a head lettuce nof a true leaf lettuce since it 


























forms a compact deep rosette of small thick leaves that 
New York, Los Angeles or Wonderful provide the good features of both types. It is earlier 
80 days. This popular head lettuce furnishes fine, crisp lettuce during than other varieties, and the tender, deep green leaves 
a 5 h GE ATI pe J ae have the superb butter-type flavor. Plants are still in 
ate ; + @ hot summer months. The largest variety grown, often producing heads prime condition until 12 to 15 inches across and weigh 
. Cos Lettuce weighing 2 to 3 pounds each, nearly as solid as a cabbage, and inside up to one-half pound. Will not become bitter during 
__ Paris White. 65 days. leaves blanched to beautiful creamy-white. Stands shipping well and re- hot weather, For a continuous supply sow every 3 
| The earliest and best of the mains in good condition longer than other sorts, weeks. 
Cos type lettuce. The 
plants are of erect growth, 
forming elongated heads of 82 days. An easily grown Lettuce of the crisphead type: no 
crisp leaves. It does not ICEBERG x ae the bek 
need tying in order to eS ‘ other variety surpasses it in quality. The heads are of 
blanch the heart, but larger, medium size, firm and hard, exceedingly crisp, juicy, sweet and tender, 
| firmer heads may be had by with heart leaves blanched to almost white. One of the best varieties for 
tying. The outer leaves are local market and the home garden. 
medium green and the in- é 
| ner leaves bleach to snowy 
_ white. Always sweet and IMPERIAL NO. 44.82 days. A variety of the New York type capable 
/ tender ee ad SB ro of making good solid heads during warm weather. 
Reerae ieaves aes a3 It can be grown on a wide variety of soils, either upland or muck, and is 
eaten as leaf lettuce. tipburn resistant. One of the best shipping varieties. 
Chicken or Rabbit Lettuce 
; : _ Feed All Spring and Summer 
e best green feed for chickens and rabbits. In this variety you will find a feed that yields as much or more 
other green feeds. It is economical to grow, for when cut it resumes its growth rapidly and can be cut again 
d again ; or the leaves can be pulled off each stem like the Jersey Kale. The yield is extremely heavy. Chicken 
r Rabbit Lettuce is too coarse for,a table variety. Grows 3 to 4 feet high and just loaded with large leaves. Large 
iough to commence feeding in 40 to 45 days. 
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Prize Head Lettuce 
PRIZE HEAD (BEEFSTEAK) 45 days. One of the best varieties for the home gar- 
den. Does not form tightly folded heads, but makes a compact bunch 
of leaves. The large, crimped leaves are highly colored brownish-red; crisp, sweet, exceédingly 
tender, and stands a long time without going to seed. 
BIBB 75 days. This choice lettuce is being used as a forcing variety in the South and 
shipped to northern hotels and high grade food shops, where it has a reputation for 
its excellent quality. It also is an unsurpassed spring variety for the home garden, but should 
be planted early as it goes to seed quickly in hot weather. The small, loose heads are dark 
green, blanching to a rich yellow, 
GREAT LAKES “sstteet' 
Great Lakes. 80 days. This variety is slow to bolt and has the ability to head under the most 
adverse conditions. It is tipburn resistant with large well-folded protecting leaves. Great Lakes 
is of the Imperial type developed by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture and Michigan Ex eriment 
Station and is one of the leading shipping varieties. It produces large solid heads; crisp and 
tender. 









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