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Burgess’ Choice 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 Roma i ; 
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-leaved 
sort for early outdoor planting. Used extensively by market gardeners. 

Gak Leaf Lettuce 
OAK LEA 
38 days. Should be in every garden. Oak Leaf is 
neither a head lettuce nor a true leaf lettuce since it 
forms a compact deep rosette of small thick leaves that 
provide the good features of both types. It is earlier 
than other varieties, and the tender, deep green leaves 
have the superb butter-type flavor. Plants are still in 
prime condition until 12 to 15 inches across and weigh 
up to one-half pound. Will not become bitter during 80 days. This popular head lettuce furnishes fine, crisp lettuce during Paris. Whit ee dee 
hot weather. For a continuous supply sow every 3 the hot summer months. The largest variety grown, often producing heads The onde pam een ory 
weeks. weighing 2 to 3 pounds each, nearly as solid as a cabbage, and inside Cos type 1ettues ; 
leaves blanched to beautiful creamy-white. Stands shipping well and re- plants are of erect growt 
Prize Head Lettuce days. 
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, exceedingly 
tender, and stands a long time without going to seed. 
BIB8 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. This is the lettuce Arthur Godfrey talked about on his radio 
program. 
GREAT LAKE G The Hot Weather 
Head Lettuce 
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 Experiment 
Station and is one of the leading shipping varieties. It produces large solid heads; crisp and 
tender. 

Great Lakes Lettuce 

WITH SOME B,, C, CALCIUM AND IRON 
EARLY CURLED SIMPSON, or SILESIA. 42 days. (White seeded.) 
A very early, hardy and dependable loose-leaved sort. Especially popular 
for home gardens. Plants large, compact, light lustrous green; leaves 
broad, frilled, firm, crisp, sweet and of good quality. 
GRAND RAPIDS. 43 days. The best loose-leaved sort for forcing un- 
der glass and an excellent variety for outdoor planting. 

New York, Los Angeles or Wonderful 
mains in good condition longer than other sorts. forming elongated heads of | 
ICEBERG &2 days. An easily grown Lettuce of the crisphead type; no need tying in order to | 
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 b 
with heart leaves blanched to almost white. One of the best varieties for tying. The outer leaves a 
local market and the home garden. 
IMPERIAL NO. 44.82 days. A variety of the New York type capable White. Always sweet an 
It can be grown on a wide variety of soils, either upland or muck, and is The young leaves may be 
tipburn resistant. One of the best shipping varieties. eaten as leaf lettuce. : 
The best green feed for chickens and rabbits. In this variety you will find a feed that yields as much or mo 
than other green feeds. It is economical to grow, for when cut it resumes its growth rapidly and can be cut a 
and again; or the leaves can be pulled off each stem like the Jersey Kale. The yield is extremely heavy. Chi 
or Rabbit Lettuce is too coarse for a table variety. Grows 3 to 4 feet high and just loaded with large leaves. L 
enough to commence feeding in 40 to 45 : 
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BURGESS’ LETTUCE BARGAIN 
{ Pkt. Great Lakes { Pkt. Oak Leaf 
i Pkt. Black Seeded Simpson 
All 3 Packets Only 35c¢ Prepaid 
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Chicken or Rabbit Lettuce 
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Lettuce seed 
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produces firmer, 
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Lettuce Seed Delivered Prepaid at the Following Prices 
: acne Ee q 
Packet Oz. 1¢ Lb. Lb. 5 Lbs. 10 Lbs. _ 
Bate. $0.30 $2.50 : 















i eee heen 115 35 
Big Boston. . Bis eisig ein. 2 stots -10 -28 ae 335 
Black Seeded Simpson.... -10 -25 :70 2.00 
Chigkem: ttreass. tise "10 25.Eb= 20 2:00 
Cos, Paris White... ...2:. -10 25 75 : 
Early Curled Simpson..... -10 125 70 500 
Grand’Rapids >... 0.5.. 7s -10 125 270 5-00 
Great Lakes, V3 oz.» 40c.. .15 :70 2:00 6.00 
ay es eae ee 215 :35 1.00 2.85 
Imperial No. 44.......... -15 50 1.40 E 
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