Burpee’s Loosehead 
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 Bow! ©— Resists heat 
45 days. All-America Gold Medal Winner. Large, 
medium-green, slow bolting, non-heading, differing 
in appearance from all other varieties in that the 
leaves are deeply lobed giving the mature plant a 
resemblance to endive. Decidedly crisp and tender. 
Pkt. 25¢; 2 pkts. 45¢; 3 pkts. 60¢; oz. 95¢ 
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 
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¢; 1% lb. $1.10 
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. Forms a 
compact bunch of crisp leaves of excellent flavor. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 40¢; 1% |b. $1.10 
489 Sloboit — Long standing; tender 
45 days. Develops well in hot weather without pro- 
ducing seed stalks as quickly as other varieties. 
Withstands mid-summer temperatures without 
going to seed for two or three weeks longer than 
Grand Rapids, Black-Seeded Simpson and Early 
Prizehead. Foliage is light green, savoyed with 
waved and heavily frilled edges. Home and market. 
Pkt. 20¢; oz. 70¢;° 14 lb. $2.10 
535 Bronze Beauty Q—Distina 
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. 
Pkt. 20¢; oz. 70¢; 1% Ib. $2.10 
Bronze Beauty 
LETTUCE 
Grand Rapids 
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. 15¢; oz. 40¢; 14 lb. $1.15 
510 Burpee Greenhart—zon¢ standing 
- 45 days. This special strain of Grand Rapids stands longer before 
bolting to seed; leaves are lighter green, the margins finely frilled 
and deeply cut. The tender, sweet and crispy leaves are popular 
with home gardeners; also adapted for winter greenhouse forcing. 
Pkt. 25¢; oz. 75¢; 14 Ib. $2.25 
497 Early Prizehead— crisp, sweet; a favorite 
45 days. One of the most popular varieties, producing large, tender 
loose heads of bright green, curled and crimped leaves which are 
heavily shaded with brownish red. Excellent flavor and quality. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 45¢; 14 Ib. $1.25 
541 Oak Leaf) shaped like oak leaves; resists heat 
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 appearance. Extremely tender, long standing and of 
excellent quality. Withstands considerable fall freezing weather. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 60¢; 14 Ib. $1.75 
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. 35¢; 14 lb. 95¢ 
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 1% ft. 
apart; cover with % in. of fine soil. Several suc- 
cessive sowings may follow about two weeks 
apart, then discontinue sowings until late sum- 
mer when they may be made to provide lettuce 
Bi ; during the fall. Thin seedlings to stand 1 ft. 
is Hagens l apart. A pkt. will sow 50 ft. of row; 1 oz. 300 ft. 
Winner 
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