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485 Grand Rapids © — Excellent quality 
45 days. Widely grown non-heading lettuce with intensely 
fringed and curled leaves. Used extensively for forcing in the 
greenhouse during winter, and is just as valuable for growing 
outdoors during the spring, summer, and fall. Regular sowing 
will give an abundance of young, tender leaves very early in 
the season, but if the plants are spaced 12’in. apart each way, 
they will produce immense round masses of sweet, juicy, brittle, 
light green leaves of good flavor. The most popular loosehead. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 40¢; 1,4 lb. $1.10 
489 Slobolt — Long standing; resists heat. Tender 
45 days. Develops well in hot weather without producing seed 
stalks as quickly as other varieties. Withstands mid-summer tem- 
peratures without going to seed for two or three weeks longer than 
Grand Rapids, Black-Seeded Simpson and Early Prizehead. Foli- 
age is light green, savoyed with waved and heavily frilled edges. 
Pkt. 20¢; oz. 70¢; 14 Ib. $2.10 
3 Good Lettuces for the Home Garden 
Burpee’s Wayahead (Butterhead), Burpee’s Iceberg (Crisp-head) 
and Oak Leaf the old favorite (Loosehead) 
70O56—SPECIAL: One pkt. each of these 3 distinct and 35 
popular kinds, value 45¢ for only ¢g 
Burpee’s Loosehead LETTUCE ‘ 
The best type for home garden use, especially where summers are hot, 
These do not form solidly folded heads, but where the 
plants are grown singly at a suitable distance apart, they 
make a large, round, thick bunch of leaves which are 
blanched to a light green or creamy yellow in the center of 
the plant. The leaves are attractive in appearance, tender 
and of delightful crispness and mild flavor. They are 
splendid to provide an extra-early supply of delicious 
salad for, when just a few inches tall, the thinnings may be 
used for the table. 
472 Salad Bowl—wew for 1952 
45 days. Large, medium-green, slow bolting, non- 
heading, differing in appearance from all other 
varieties in that the leaves are deeply lobed giving 
oz. 95¢ 
, the mature plant a resemblance to endive. 
Pkt. 25¢; 
493 Black-Seeded Simpson 
45 days. Splendid non-heading or cutting lettuce 
with broad, light green, frilled and crumpled outer 
leaves; center leaves blanch almost white. Grows 
2 pkts. 45¢; 
quickly, is early and of extra fine quality. The 
texture of leaves is brittle and crisp; flavor is deli- 
cate and appetizing. Local market or home use. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 40¢; 
490 Early Curled Simpson — 
43 days. The large plants have very light green, 
crumpled and slightly frilled leaves that are tender, 
succulent, and of decidedly piquant taste. Formsa 
compact bunch of crisp leaves of excellent flavor. — 
Spring and early summer home garden favorite. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 40¢; 14 lb. $1.10 
497 Early Prizehead— crisp, sweet 
45 days. One of the most popular varieties, produc- 
ing large, tender, loose heads of bright green, curled 
and crimped leaves which are heavily shaded with 
brownish red. Of excellent flavor and fine quality. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 45¢; 14 Ib. $1.25 
541 Oak Leaf— shaped like oak leaves 
40 days. Forms a tight bunch or rosette of medium 
green leaves which are deeply lobed, with the end 
lobe elongated, giving the plant a spiky appear- ae 
.ance. Extremely tender, long standing and of the 
most excellent quality. Popular in many sections. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 60¢; 14 lb. $1.75 
535 Bronze Beauty ©—Distinct 
40 days. The leaves are small and long in shape, 
sharply cut, dark green in color, tinged with 
bronze, very tender and of unusually fine butter- 
like flavor. Is resistant to hot weather; easy to 
grow and remarkably uniform. Its attractive color- 
ing makes it desirable for decorative as well as 
edible purposes. Long standing, compact grower. 
14, lb. $2.10 
Pkt. 20¢; oz. 70¢; 
482 Chicken Lettuce 
40 days. The plants grow 4 ft. tall before they run 
. to seed. Planted extensively for feeding poultry 
and rabbits. Not desirable for table use. Hardy. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 30¢; Y% Ib. 90¢ 
How to Grow Lettuce 
Lettuce grows best during the cool seasons of 
the year, and in a rich, moist, cool soil, so that 
the seed should be sown thinly in the spring as 
soon as the soil can be worked, in rows 124 tt. 
apart; cover with ¥% in. of fine soil. Several suc- 
cessive sowings may follow about two weeks 
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apart, then discontinue sowings until late sum- 
mer when they may be made to provide lettuce 
during the fall. Thin seedlings to stand 1 ft. | 
apart. A pkt. will sow 50 ft. of row; 1 oz. 300 ft. oI 
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