
Experienced lettuce growers like Mr. Angelo Caltabiano and his two boys of Phoenix, N. Y. know quality for it means the difference be- 
tween profit and loss. 
That is the reason why they favor our Cornell 456 Lettuce seed. 
LEAF LETTUCE 
Vitamins Ab Cg 
Pkt. will sow 50 ft. row 
Leaf lettuce may be sown in open ground as soon as soil can be worked. Sow seed % 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. 
We have tested Slobolt and find that it does remain in edible condition longer than other varieties. 
recommend that you also try Slobolt. 
We 
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 
are large, attractive, compact, with broad, frilled 
light green leaves that are of fine crisp texture and 
splendid quality. Too tender for forcing under glass 
for market. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; oz. 35c; % |b. 80c; 
WA Nee AU Mei es he. Sys poy: 
221 GRAND RAPIDS: 42 days. Plants are large, 
upright, compact and bright solid light green. 
Leaves are large, broad, tender, and the margin 
much waved and frilled. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; oz. 
BCH 4 lb, SUCH 4 Iba Sls) lbao2.2>. 
*222 PRIZEHEAD: 48 days. Plants are medium 
large, strictly loose-leaf. Leaves are broad, crum- 
pled and frilled. Outside leaves are tinged with red, 
inner leaves wholly green; very crisp, sweet and 
tender.) Pkts lOc: 34 70z-20c- "02-5 5c- 4, 1b. Oc: 
¥Y% |b. $1.35; Ib. $2.30. 
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1 Ib. 25c; 5 Ibs. 75c; 10 lbs. $1.30; 25 Ibs. $2.40, pre- 
paid. 

“223 SLOBOLT: 45 days. A strain of Grand Rapids 
type selected for its slow bolting character. Similar 
to Grand Rapids in appearance and quality. Pkt. 
ee a oz. 45c; oz. 70c; % |b. $1.55; &% Ib. $2.70; 
. $4.50. 
224 BRONZE BEAUTY: 42 days. A crisp, tender 
lettuce with an unusually tasty nut-like flavor. 
Plants are vigorous, well formed, and uniform in 
height. Leaves are long, neatly arched with margins 
deeply lobed and scalloped. Their color is a ruddy 
bronzey Pkt 250734 oz aGie: one ole 
All Robson Quality Seed is carefully tested in the 
seed laboratory and the germination printed on 
each package. 
COME AND SEE US 
Many of you will this Summer be touring 
through the Finger Lakes area of New York 
We suggest that you visit our farms and 
State. 
trial grounds at Hall. 
Hall is on Route 14A between Geneva and 
Penn Yan. If you travel Route 5 and 20 East 
from Canandaigua, turn to the right on the new 
black top road just east of Wayside Manor 
which, by the way, is a tourist home that we 
highly recommend. The Fredericksens are 
grand people. 
