Prize Head (47 days): Plants medium 
size, crisp and tender. Color light red- 
dish brown on a medium green base. 
Simpson’s Early Curled (45 days) : Leaves 
are large, crumpled and frilled on the 
edges. Color yellowish green. 
Head Lettuce. The type grown by com- 
mercial growers, and most popular with 
home gardeners. Head lettuce should be 
started indoors in flats and later trans- 
planted to the open garden, after the 
danger of frost is past. This transplanting 
is also important in the forcing of plants 
into heading. Great Lakes is a newer va- 
riety that is rapidly becoming the most 
popular with home gardeners. 
Head Lettuce: 2 ounce, 25c; ounce, 40c. 
Great Lakes (75 days): Very resistant to 
tip burn and withstands summer _ heat. 
Excellent for local markets. 
PSC Crispette (80 days) : Large, firm and 
crisp heads. Leaves are bright green and 
slightly curly. 
New York (80 days): Heads are well 
blanched, sweet and tender. Pioneer of 
long distance shipping variety. 
Hanson (85 days): Heads are large, 
globular, compact. Light yellowish green 
in color. Good for mid-summer planting. 
MELONS 
Melons are only for the large garden and 
the determined gardener who will give 
his vines the cultural attention they re- 
quire from the outset, and will fight in- 
sects that might attack them. A _ long, 
sunny, hot season, with dry atmosphere, 
but sufficient soil moisture is required for 
good crop results. A light but well- 
manured soil, with mildly acid reaction, 
is also advantageous. 
Seed should be sown in hills that are five 
or six feet apart each way, with approxi- 
mately three plants to the hill. In the 
early season it is advisable to protect the 
young plants with hotcap paper covers 
until the vines begin to run. 
WATERMELONS. 
Ya ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also Packets. 
Klondike (80 days): Large, oblong, 
slightly tapering and solid dark green. 
Flesh bright dark red. Seed small, black. 
Striped Klondike (80 days) : Shaped same 
as Klondike. Irregular dark green stripes 
on lighter background. Flesh deepest red 
of all melons. 
Black Seeded Ice Cream (85 days) : Fruits 
small, nearly round, creamy white with 
faint irregular pale green stripes. Flesh 
deep red, very firm and fine quality. Best 
for most home gardens. 
Kleckley Sweet (85 days): Fruits large, 
cylindrical, dark bluish green with thin 
rind. Seed creamy white, trace of brown. 
MUSIK MELONS 
Yo ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also Packets. 
Hearts of Gold (90 days): Fruits nearly 
round, distinctly ribbed, deep green, flesh 
very thick and deep salmon color. 3 to 
3 V2 pounds. 
Hale’s Best (80 days): Exceptionally 
thick, deep salmon colored flesh. Fruits 3 
to 4 pounds. 
Banana (98 days): Fruits smooth and 
slender. Creamy yellow exterior. Flesh 
salmon color with banana-like flavor. 5 > 
to 6 pound each. 
Casaba Golden Beauty (78 days) : Wrin- 
kled, bright golden yellow skin. Fruits 
globular shaped and mature early. Flesh 
is white. 
MUSTARD 
The popular ‘’Greens” of the South, and 
a vegetable that should be encouraged 
for Northern gardens, as it is extremely 
hardy, and the foliage when cooked like 
spinach presents a tasty dish that pleases 
the most particular taste. 
The variety chiefly grown is Southern 
Giant Curled. Seed is sown in the garden 
a little at a time in the spring and fall; 
seedlings coming up quickly and are 
thinned to stand about three inches apart. 
When the plants are four inches high, 
they may be cut for salads, and when they 
have reached a growth of six inches, or 
more, they are excellent for cooked 
greens. A packet of seed will supply 
enough for the average garden. 
VY ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also Packets. 
ONIONS 
Onions are found in most American gar- 
dens, though results are often disappoint- 
ing, because cultural requirements have 
not been given sufficient attention. Par- 
ticularly in the matter of weeding. The 
soil should be worked into fine tilth with- 
out clods, stones, etc., to a depth of about 
six inches and well enriched. Either well 
rotted manure or commercial fertilizer 
may be used. If manure is selected, be 
sure that it is well rotted. 
Early onions are best grown from sets. 
Later onions, and particularly those in- 
tended to be kept in winter storage, may 
be raised from seed sown in the open. 
Scallions, or bunching onions, eaten when 
young and fresh, are successfully grown 
from seed. 
The best green onion variety is White 
Bunching. Oregon Yellow Danvers, and 
Sweet Spanish, are the most popular large 
globular onions. 
Packet, 10c; 2 ounce, 40c; ounce, 75c. 
Oregon Yellow Danver (110 days) : Bulbs 
three-quarter globe shape. Dark yellow 
skin, white flesh. Excellent for storage 
because of hard skin. 
Australian Brown (100 days): Bulbs 
semi-globe. Chestnut brown, tough, tight 
filling skin. Flesh creamy white. 
Southport White Globe (110 days) : Bulbs 
round, medium sized, firm and pure white. 
Thin skin, fine grained, waxy white flesh. 
Sweet Spanish (110 days) : Large globu- 
lar onion, with golden yellow skin. Flesh 
is white, mild and very sweet. 
White Bunching (30 to 40 days): Best 
for green onions. Young sprouts are crisp 
and mild, attaining good size before bulb 
is formed. 
White Sweet Spanish (110 days): Bulbs 
globular, small neck and pure white. Flesh 
clear white, firm and mild. 
White Burmuda (93 days) : 
white and mild enough to eat raw. 
for frying with meat. 
Yellow Bermuda (93 days) : 
straw yellow, flesh nearly white. 
and mild. 
OKRA 
Another familiar plant of the Southern 
gardens, and not too well known in the 
North. It is very easily grown and has 
ornamental value for your vegetable gar- 
den. The long pods are used, either green 
or dried, in stews and gumbo type soups. 
They may also be served as a vegetable 
when picked young and tender. The Dwarf 
Green variety is the most popular for 
home gardeners.. A packet of seed is 
ample for the average family. 
Yy ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also Packets. 
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