CULTIVATE 
Cultivating is done for two purposes. 1— 
To keep the weeds out. 2—To keep a dust 
mulch which conserves moisture. 
Weeds rob the cultivated plants of water, 
plant food, and even space, and light. 
If the garden is cultivated once a week, 
especially during the early part of the sea- 
son, weeds will be controlled, and the crops 
will get the benefit of the moisture and soil 
fertility. 
LEEK 
Packet 10c 
Planting Instructions: It may be 
sown in drills or broadcast. When the 
plants are 6 inches high, transplant 
into rows about a foot apart, setting 
_the plants 4 or 5 inches deep and 
about 6 inches apart in the rows. 
LARGE LONDON or SCOTCH FLAG. 
Long, broad stems, leaves are rather 
dark green color, rather early and a 
very productive variety. 
Mustard Spinach 
Packet 10c 
TENDERGREEN. A quick growing plant 
similar to foliage turnip but producing 
a crop of leaves in much shorter time. 
Earliest and quickest growing green. 
Very popular everywhere. Days to ma- 
turity, 28. 
EARLY DWARF PROLIFIC 
OKRA 
LETTUCE 
Packet 10c 
Planting Instructions: Lettuce 
should be in every garden as it is the 
most commonly grown salad crop.’ It 
prefers a rich, mellow, sandy-loam soil 
and does its best in the cooler parts 
of the gardening season. To have let- 
tuce crisp and at its best, the growth 
must be rapid. To get this the plants 
should have plenty of moisture and 
fertilizer. Seed may be sown broad- 
cast but the best way is to sow in 
rows about 1 to 2 feet apart. When 
the plants are up, thin to about 6 to 
12 inches apart. It is best to make 
small but frequent sowings so that 
you will have fresh plants coming 
along during the season. Insects do 
not bother lettuce to any etxent in the 
home garden. 
LOOSE LEAF VARIETIES 
OAK LEAF. Distinct because the deeply 
lobed leaves resemble oak leaves. Plants 
are medium large with thick, succulent, 
tender leaves. A fine home garden va- 
riety. 
next rain. 
under the surface. 
MUSTARD 
Packet 10c 
Planting Instructions: Mustard 
greens or mustard spinach is an ac- 
ceptable substitute for spinach and 
can usually be depended upon for sat- 
isfactory growth, even in poor soil. 
The seed should be sown as early in 
the spring as possible, or if wanted 
for a fall crop, in late July or early 
August. In the South the crops are 
often started in the fall for early 
spring salad. Seed is sown in drills 
about 12 inches apart, and the plants 
thinned to 5 or 6 inches in the row. 
Mustard has an especial appeal for 
the home gardener who has a fond- 
ness for ‘‘greens.” 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED. Leaves 
are twice the size of the ordinary 
White Mustard and the flavor is sweet. 
Days to maturity, 35. 
CHINESE. Very hardy. A large plant, 
leaves are often 14 to 16 inches long, 
with the edges often turned under- 
neath. The leaves are eaten like spin- 
ach. Days to maturity, 40. 
FLORIDA BROAD LEAVED. Excep- 
tionally large, thick, bright green, 
smooth leaves with toothed edges; a 
quick grower. Days to maturity, 40. 
GRAND RAPIDS (Black Seeded). The 
best leaf lettuce to sow outside for the 
summer market, and recommended for 
family use. It does not form a head 
but produces beautiful, long, curly and 
wrinkled leaves. Days to maturity, 45. 
BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON. Plant is 
compact and consists of a firm, well 
blanched, rounded to elongated and V- 
shaped cluster of leaves, closely drawn 
together. Days to maturity, 40. 
EARLY CURLED or WHITE SEEDED 
SIMPSON. Plant spreading and form- 
ing a rounded to-low V-shaped, well 
balanced, dense cluster of leaves. Days 
to maturity, 40. 
HEAD LETTUCE 
ICEBERG (White Seeded). A curled 
heading medium large, crisp, green va- 
riety, edges fringed and tinged with 
brown, a sort having outer leaves of 
strong ribs enclosing an exceedingly 
ele white interior. Days to matur- 
ity, 
EARLY PRIZE HEAD (White Seed). 
Forms a large, tender, crisp, loose head, 
bright green crimpled leaves tinged 
with red. Days to maturity, 45. 
Thin your lettuce plants so that each 
plant will have room to develop and you'll 
have more and better lettuce. 
See page 17 for Vegetable Seed Prices, 
Do not cultivate when soil is wet but 
work soil thoroughly as soon as possible 
after each rain or irrigation. This prevents 
crusting, and keeps the soil loose to con- 
serve moisture and to readily absorb the 
The cultivation should be shallow to 
avoid injuring the vegetable plant roots that 
lie near the surface. Many gardeners use 
a “Pull Hoe Weeder” which slips along just 
OKRA OR GUMBO 
Packet 10c 
The young green pods are used in 
soups or stews, or in the South as a 
separate side dish. They impart a 
rich flavor to soups. 
Planting Instructions: Sow late in > 
the spring, after the ground has be- 
come warm, in drills 3 feet apart, and 
when the plants are 3 inches high thin 
out from 10 to 12 inches. They should 
be well manured. They also can be 
started in a hotbed and transplanted 
afterwards. 
EARLY DWARF PROLIFIC. It is a 
small fruited sub-variety of the Long 
Green Okra, but is earlier and more 
productive. The pods are very short. 
Days to maturity, 60. 
WHITE VELVET. Distinctly unlike 
other varieties in that the pod is per- 
fectly smooth and round. They are of 
attractive appearance and_ superior | 
Pods are of > 
flavor and tenderness. 
extra large size and produced in great 
abundance. Days to maturity, 65. 
CLEMSON SPINELESS. A _ uniform, 
spineless strain of Perkins Long Pod- 
ded type. Days to maturity, 50 to 55. 
PERKINS MAMMOTH TALL GREEN. 
Pods bright, deep green, slender and 
meaty. Plants 5 feet tall, pods 7 inches 
long. Days to maturity, 56. 
NEW YORK or WONDERFUL (White 
Seed). A very crisp variety, strictly 
cabbage-heading, very large, late, ex- 
tremely slow to seed. Leaves blistered, 
pxumpled and twisted. Days to matur- 
_ ity, 75. 
NEW YORK NO. 12. An early improved 
strain of New York for spring and 
summer. It is a well bred selection of 
this famous lettuce, being lighter in 
color, more desirable for general plant- 
ing. Days to maturity, 73. : 
GREAT LAKES LETTUCE. Imperial 
type that really stands up and produces 
heads in hot weather. Heads are large, 
deep green, with thick crisp leaves. 
Resistant to tip burn. Can remain in 
the field longer than other varieties be- 
fore cutting. Days to maturity, 86. 
IMPERIAL 847. Heads are medium large 
and solid. 
weather and is resistant to tip burn. 
Black seeded. Days to maturity, 85. 
IMPERIAL 44. Heads medium large, 
slightly flattened and compact. Days 
to maturity, 82. ; 
BIG BOSTON (White Seed). A splendid 
shipper, sure header, reliable and hardy, 
and is a good late summer or autumn 
variety. Days to maturity, 70. : 
HANSON (White Seed). Plant spreading, 
but not loose in habit and forming a 
globular, extremely hard, well defined, — 
well branched head, with leaves blis- 
tered, crumpled and twisted. Days to ig 
maturity, 65. 
Does fairly well in hot 
