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_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. 
6042 Salad Bowl O_ 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 thé 
leaves are deeply lobed giving the mature planta 
resemblance to endive. Decidedly crisp and tender. .’ 
Pkt. 25¢; oz. 85¢; 14 Ib. $2.50 
6045 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. 15¢; oz. 45¢; 14 lb. $1.20 
5026 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. 20¢; oz. 50¢; 14 lb. $1.35 
6048 Slobolt — 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. 25¢; oz. 75¢; .14 Ib.’ $2.15 
6056 Bronze Beauty © 
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. 25¢; oz. 75¢; 14 Ib. $2.15 
Bronze Beauty Lettuce 
All-America Bronze Medal 
Winner 
Burpee 
Greenhart 
6058 Burpee Greenhart® oO 
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 lb. $2.25 
6043 Grand Rapids — Popular loosehead 
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 abun- 
dance 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, brittle, light green leaves of good flavor. 
Pkt. 20¢; oz. 45¢; 1,4 Ib. $1.35 
~ 5023 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 
6052 Oak Leaf—sraped 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. 
. rs Pkt. 20¢; oz. 60¢; 1% lb. $1.50 
5233 Chicken Lettuce 
40 days. Plants grow 4 ft. tall before they run to 
seed. Used extensively for feeding poultry and 
rabbits. Not desirable for table use. Hardy. 
Pkt. 20¢; oz. 45¢;. 14 Ib. $1.25 
How to Grow Lettuce 
Lettuce grows best during the cool seasons of 
the year, and ina rich, moist, cool soil, so that 
the seed should be sown thinly in the spring as 
goon as the soil can be worked, in rows 1% ft. 
apart; cover with 1% 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 
during the fall. Thin seedlings to stand 1 ft. 
apart. A pkt. will sow 50 ft. of row; 1 oz. 300 ft. 
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