TURNIPEPdrele Top White Globe 
LETTUCE 
Heading or Cabbage 
BIG BOSTON or MAMMOTH BOSTON — 
Popular for cold frame forcing and outside 
culture. Medium, Compact, heads with 
creamy yellow heart. Smooth, glossy leaves, 
edges wavy, and slightly tinged with red- 
dish brown, 75 days. 
GREAT LAKES—All American TopilZa1953% 
An outstanding new Iceberg or Crisp-head 
type. A summer lettuce that stands heat 
well and is very resistant to tip burn. Heads 
medium, solid, and very crisp, 
ICEBERG — Late large variety. Compact 
SQUASH, 
Zucchini 
WHITE PARIS COS OR TRIANON— Medium 
large self-folding, dark green loaf shaped 
heads. Greenish-white, well blanched in- 
terior. 66 days. 
Loose Leaf Varieties 
BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON — Light green, 
frilled and crumpled, 45 days. 
OAK LEAF—The most popular leaf lettuce 
for home gardens, Rich, dark green leaves, 
tender and delicious. Excellent resistance 
to hot weather. 
SALAD BOWL — All America Gold Medal 
Award for 1952, Delicious bowl-full of rich 
green and decorative leaf lettuce, Pkt. 25c. 
heads, crumpled, crisp and sweet. Leaves 
light green, slightly brown on edges, 85 
days. 
IMPERIAL NO. 847 (Florida Iceberg) — 
Heads are of good size and solid. Does 
well in hot weather, and is resistant to tip 
burn, Hardy, 83 days. 
MANGEL WURZEL 
(SEE BEETS, STOCK) 
MELONS 
MUSKMELONS AND CANTALOUPE 
Easily injured by cool weather. Before 
planting, spade liberal forkful of well rot- 
NEW YORK—Long distance shipper. Large ted manure into each hill. Thin plants 
curled heading lettuce. Dark green. Curled to four per hill after third leaf develops, 
edge leaves. Well blanched heads. Sweet, and train vines in different directions. 
tender, 80 days to maturity. On moist ground, use shingles to hold 
HEAD LETTUCE IS EASY 
The old bug-a-bear about home gardeners being unable to grow head lettuce is 
true no longer. 
It's all in the know-how” of the needs and peculiarities of lettuce. All types 
have certain individual characteristics. The best way to get a start with head 
lettuce ig in a hot bed or in the house. Do this early enough so that the plants 
will be large enough to set out in the very early spring. 
It is very important to thin head lettuce so that the plants may become stocky 
and vigorous. Transplant the lettuce, started indoors, when the plants have made 
2 or 3 true leaves. Set the plants at least 8 inches apart in the row in light, warm 
soil. Liberal applications of well rotted manure, thoroughly mixed with the soil 
before the plants are set out will supply humus and needed fertility. 
Cool, moist weather is best for growing head lettuce, and unless there is an 
unusual amount of rainfall, watering is needed. Let the water trickle from a hose 
along the roots of the plant for several hours so that the soil will be thoroughly 
soaked. 
LETTUCE VARIETIES 
For the home gardener lettuce may be divided into three classes: 
HEAD LETTUCE—tight, crisp, nearly white lettuce with a cabbage-like head. 
LEAF LETTUCE—loose, and has many more outer green leaves, and head is 
not so compact, and is white only towards the center. 
COS LETTUCE—With loose, oblong, head-like clusters of spoon shaped leaves. 
Cos, or Romaine lettuce is little grown, but is useful for a summer supply or in 
regions too hot to grow the first two types. 
WATERMELON 
Dixie Queen 
melons off ground to prevent rotting. If 
grown in cool weather or where nights 
are cold, will not bear well and melons 
will have poor flavor. 
BANANA—Fruits smooth and slender, 20 
inches long and 4 inches thick, resembling 
a banana. Flesh salmon color, with banana- 
like flavor. 90 days to maturity. 
HALE’S BEST—Flesh thick, deep salmon- 
pink, sweet and tasty. Heavily netted rind, 
with faint stripe. Small seed cavity. Out- 
standing variety, resistant to powdery mil- 
dew. 4 lbs. 86 days. 
HEARTS OF GOLD OR IMPROVED HOO- 
DOO—Nearly round 2-lb. fruit, distinctly 
ribbed, deep green with fine grey netting. 
Thick, deep salmon flesh, tender sweet. 94 
days. 
HONEY DEW—The well-known green-flesh- 
ed melon for warm climates. Smooth, ivory 
colored skin. Flesh is sweet and juicy. 112 
days. 
GOLDEN DELIGHT—Delicious orange or 
salmon flesh. Fruits elongated and firmer 
than most of its class. 
ROCKY FORD, GOLDEN LINED — Fruits 
small, with rather large seed cavity. Nearly 
round, weight 2% lbs. No ribs. Flesh thick, 
green with gold tinge at center. Very 
juicy and spicy. Excellent quality, 92 days. 
TEXAS RESISTANT NUMBER 1 — New mil- 
dew and aphid resistant melon. Rich sal- 
mon-colored firm flesh, sweet and slightly 
musky-flavored. Small seed cavity, with 
few compact seeds, Moderate netting, firm 
rind. 414 to 5% in. diameter, Very prolific. 
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