SEED GROWERS 
LETTUCE — Continued 
CALIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER, B.S. 7) 
Popular with market gardeners and home gardeners. Heads large and 
globular with golden yellow interior. Leaves large, thick, dark green 
tinged and spotted with brown. 
CHICKEN, W.S. 35 
A dark green cutting lettuce; butter type, producing the largest supply 
of leaves of any known lettuce. Grown for poultry and rabbit feed. 
CRISP AS ICE, B.S. 76 
Head medium sized. Leaves thick and crumpled, deep green with bronze 
cast. Fine variety for home gardens. 
EARLY CURLED SIMPSON, W.S. 45 
Forms a close, compact mass of curly, yellowish-green leaves; early, hardy 
plant. Leaves are tender, sweet and of excellent quality. An old favorite 
with home gardeners. 
GRAND RAPIDS, B.S. 43 
An excellent forcing variety as well as one of the best for outdoor plant- 
ing. Plant erect; leaves medium light green, very curled and fringed. 
Stands heat and dry weather well. 
GREAT LAKES 83 
A heading variety of the Imperial type developed by the U. S. Dept. of 
Agriculture and Michigan Experiment Station. Leaves large and well- 
folded; ribs heavy. Shows considerable resistance to tipburn and ability 
to head under adverse conditions. For local markets. 
ICEBERG, W.S. 80 
Large curly leaves of bright, light green with a very slight reddish tinge 
at the edges. The unusual solidity of the heads is insured by the large, 
white main ribs of the leaves, each of which curves strongly to the center, 
making it impossible for the leaves to open outward and expose the cen- 
ter which is constantly and thoroughly blanched. 
IMPERIAL NO. 44 B.S. 82 
One of the best of the New York or Iceberg types for use in the East and 
South. A good header and resistant to tipburn. 
IMPERIAL NO. 847 B.S. 84 
Heads medium large, hard and of good quality. Stands up well in warm 
weather. Resistant to Tipburn. 
IMPROVED HANSON OR NONPAREIL, W.S. 78 
Plant very large with thick yellowish-green leaves; heads large, firm and 
cabbage-like with sweet, tender heart. Good for midsummer planting and 
popular with home gardeners. 
MAY KING, W.S. 62 
Plant this lettuce for the first early head lettuce. It is equally good for 
outdoor planting or forcing. The outer leaves have a slightly brownish 
tinge, while the heart is a beautiful yellow, very crisp and tender. 
MIGNONETTE, B.S. ; _ 60 
Plant medium small, compact, medium brown with dark greenish tinge. 
Leaves frilled; head globular and firm; heart almost white. Excellent 
quality. 
NEW YORK OR WONDERFUL, W.S. ' ; bles 78 
One of the very best of the curled or crisp heading varieties. The head, 
at first pointed or conical, becomes globular at maturity and is of medium 
large size, dark green in color and slightly curled on edges. Heads are 
very hard and well! blanched Quality is excellent, being sweet, yet never 
buttery in flavor. 
OAK LEAVED 43 
Leaves are smooth but deeply lobed to resemble the leaf_of an oak tree. 
Plant is medium large size, spreading, fairly dark green. Forms an attrac- 
tive headlike rosette. 
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