Lettuce 
CULTURE: Sow early in the spring. May be sown 
in hotbeds and transplanted. One ounce will plant 
a row 100 feet long; 3 pounds per acre. 
Heading Varieties 
@® IMPERIAL NO 44 
(Days to Maturity, 80) 
Usses: Fine for market and home gardens. 
Heaps: Makes firm heads of good size and 
excellent quality. Heads better in warm 
weather. 

Lettuce, Big Boston 
@ BIG BOSTON (White Seeded) 
(Days to Maturity, 75) 
Uses: Market and home gardens. 
Heaps: Medium size, light green. Butterhead 
type, firm, compact, light yellow heart. 
Leaves smooth, glossy and light green. 
e SLOBOLT (Black Seeded) 
(Days to Maturity, 43) 
Recently introduced by U.S. D. A. 
Uses: Same as Grand Rapids. 
Piant: Similar in type and general appearance 
to Grand Rapids but with unusual re- 
sistance to bolting in warm weather. 
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Lettuce, New York 
@ NEW YORK (White Seeded) 
‘(Days to Maturity, 78) 
Outstanding shipper. Also known as 
Los Angeles. 
Heaps: Round, dark green, interior creamy 
white, crisp and tender. Outside leaves 
large, dark green, curled, with crinkled 
edges. 
e SOUTHERN STATES ICEBERG 
(White Seeded) 
(Days to Maturity, 82) 
UsEs: 
Uses: Home and market gardens. A more 
tender and better variety than New 
York. 
Heaps: Medium large, compact, hard, crumpled 
light green, interior white. Outside 
leaves curled and waxy, with fringed 
edges, margin tinged with reddish 
brown. 

Lettuce, Southern States Iceberg 
SOUTHERN STATES COOPERATIVE 
