LEAF LETTUCE VARIETIES 
GRAND RAPIDS 
43 days. The best loose-leaved 
sort for forcing under glass and an 
excellent variety for outdoor plant- 
ing. 
BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON 
42 days. <A popular curled or 
loose-leaved sort for early outdoor 
planting. Used extensively by mar- 
ket gardeners, 
EARLY CURLED SIMPSON 
or SILESIA 
42 days. (White seeded.) A very 
early, hardy and dependable loose- 
leaved sort. Especially popular for 
home gardens. Plants large, com- 
pact, light lustrous green; leaves 
broad, frilled, firm, crisp, sweet 
and of good quality. 
Oak Leaf 
Lettuce 
OAK LEAF—with the Butter Flavor 
Small Thick Leaves 
38 ase. Oak Leaf is neither a head lettuce nor a 
true leaf lettuce since it forms a compact deep rosette 
of small thick leaves that provide the good features of 
both types. It is earlier than other varieties, and the 
tender, deep green leaves have the superb butter-type 
flavor. Plants are still in prime condition until 12 to 
14 in. across and weigh up to one-half pound. Will 
hot become bitter in hot weather. 
NOTE: Lettuce seed treated with ROOTONE produces 
firmer, more uniform, larger heads and healthier leaves. 
See page 40. 
Lettuce Bargain 
{ Pkt. Beefsteak 
{ Pkt. Great Lakes 
{ Pkt. Oak Leaf 
{ Pkt. Black Seeded Simpson 
All 4 Packets Only 55c Prepaid 
BEEFSTEAK 
PRIZEHEAD. 45 days. One of the 
best varieties for the home garden. 
Does not form tightly folded heads, 
but makes a compact bunch of 
leaves. The large, crimped leaves 
are, highly colored brownish-red ; 
crisp, sweet, exceedingly tender; 
and it stands a long time without 
going to seed. 
SLOBOLT 
It Stands Longest 
42 days. A heat resistant variety 
of the excellent Black Seed Simp- 
son type that is especially desirable 
for warm weather culture because 
it ‘‘bolts’? to seed much slower 
than other varieties. Delightfully 
crisp outer leaves may be picked 
as plant progresses, thus plant re- 
mains dwarf. 
CORN SALAD 
(Hardy Winter Salad) 
Served like lettuce; also for garnishing meat 
dishes, and can be cooked like spinach. Sow 
SALAD BOWL 
One of Best AIll- 
America Selections 
48 days. All the 
judges recommended 
this new lettuce. It’s! 
a loose-leaf variety 
with rich green leaves 
that make the prettiest 
salad. It stands sun 
better than Oakleaf 
and is a faster and 
Salad Bowl larger grower. 
CRESS (High in Iron) 
Gives Distinction to a Salad 
EXTRA CURLED (Pepper Grass). Grows 
tapidly, being ready for use in 30 to 40 days 
after seed is planted. Fine for salads, gar- |} thinly in August or September to supply fresh 
nishing and as a green in sandwiches. Has 1 inne tic 1 fall-and wint Bnths 
an agreeable pungent taste. (Pkt. 0c) (oz. | @@¥es during the cool fall and winter months. 
One oz. will (Bkts (5e)} 
(oz. 45e) (14 
plant 40’ of row. 
Ib. $1.25) prepaid. 
COLLARDS 
Non-Heading Cabbage 
GEORGIA. A form of loose-headed cabbage 
that sueceeds in locations where other cab- 
bages cannot be grown to perfection. In the 
30c) (4% lb. 85c) prepaid. 
PERENNIAL UPLAND CRESS. 60 days. 
Same flavor as Water Cress. Grows on high, 
dry land. An easily grown hardy perennial 
that remains for several years without re- 
planting. (Pkt. 15c) (% oz. 40c) (oz. 75c) 
prepaid. 
PERENNIAL WATER CRESS. 50 days. A 
hardy plant whieh will thrive well only when 
the roots are submerged in water. Can be 
easily grown in springs or along the edges of 
Ss j j s oT a vi] i De 
shallow running streams. One of the most de- outh it continues to grow all winter. 1 oz 
licious of all small salad plants. (Pkt. 25¢) | makes 3000 plants. (Pkt. (0c) (oz. 30c) 
(% lb. 80c) (lb. $2.00) prepaid. 
ENDIVE 
GREEN CURLED. One of the most refreshing of 
all salads. May be grown any season of the year. 
Plants grow 17” across. The leaves are fringed and 
are a rich green in color; but blanch to creamy 
white in the center. (Pkt. 5c) (oz. 30c) (%4 lb 
80c) (lb. $2.25) prepaid. 
WHITE CURLED. Quite similar to Green Curled, 
but more easily blanched to pure white in the cen- 
ter. (Pkt. {5c) (oz. 30c) (% Ib. 80c) (Ib. $2.25) 
prepaid. 
BATAVIAN FULL HEART. Foliage broad and flat 
—deep green leaves with thick midrib, that is ex- 
ceedingly palatable when well blanched. Stands dry 
weather best. Unsurpassed for salad when blanched 
by an experienced gardener, but is more generally 
used cooked like Kale or Spinach or as flavoring for 
soups, stews, etc. (Pkt. {5e) (oz. 30c) (14 lb. 80c) 
(lb. $2.25) prepaid. 
(% 02. 65c) (oz. $1.20) prepaid. 
One Ounce of Seed 
for 150 Feet of Row 
a 
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One ounce of seed to. 
400 feet of row; 3 
pounds to the acre. 
Great Lakes, 
HEAD LETTUCE VARIETIES 
GREAT LAKES—Best of Ali Headers 
Early Strain. 80 days. 
large well-folded protecting leaves. 
Most Outstanding of All Home Garden Head Lettuces 
This variety is slow to bolt and has the ability 
to head under the most adverse conditions. 
It is tipburn resistant with 
Great Lakes is of the Imperial type 
developed by the USDA and Michigan Experiment Station and is one of 
the leading shipping varieties. 
tender. 
without. it. 
It produces large solid heads; crisp and 
Unquestionably the finest head lettuce for the home garden. 
such a sure header under almost any 
It is 
conditions, that no garden should be 
NEW YORK, Los Angeles or WONDERFUL 
The Largest Header 
80 days. This popular head lettuce 
the hot summer months. The largest 
Weighing 2 to 3 pounds each, 
leaves blanched to beautiful creamy- 
mains in good condition longer than 
COS or ROMAINE LETTUCE —— 
Paris White. 65 days. 
of the Cos type lettuce. 
growth, 
It does not need tying in order to 
heart, but larger, firmer heads may 
tying. 
The 
the inner leaves bleach to snowy white. 
t and tender and does not become bitter dur- 
The young leaves may be eaten 
sweet 
ing hot weather. 
as leaf lettuce. 
ICEBERG—Crisphead Type 
An easily grown lettuce of the crisp- 
82 days. 
head type ; 
ity. The ‘heads 
hard, exceedingly crisp, 
no other variety surpasses 
juicy, 
BIG BOSTON— 
75 days. 
and flavor for forcing and home garden. 
nearly 
earliest and best 
The plants are of erect 
forming elongated heads of crisp leaves. 
The outer leaves are medium green and 
are of medium size, 
sweet and tender, 
with heart leaves blanched to almost white. 
"Butter-Heading’ Type 
A sure-heading, long-standing variety of superb texture, color 
e furnishes fine, crisp. lettuce during 
variety grown, often producing heads 
as solid as a cabbage, and inside 
white. Stands shipping well and re- 
other sorts. 
blanch the 
be had by 
Always 
it in qual- 
firm and 
Known as a “‘butter-heading’’ 
variety because of smooth delicate leaves and the creamy-yellow heart. 
Prepaid 
LETTUCE PRICES 
Packet 
CHICKEN OR 
RABBIT LETTUCE 
Feed All Spring and Summer 
The best green feed for chickens 
and rabbits. In this variety you will 
‘find a feed that yields as much or 
more than other green feeds. It is 
economical to grow, for when cut it 
resumes its growth rapidly and can 
be cut again and again; or the leaves 
can be pulled off each stem like the 
Jersey Kale. The yield is extremely 
heavy. Chicken or Rabbit Lettuce is 
too coarse for a table variety. Grows 
3 to 4 feet high and just loaded with 
large leaves. Large enough to com- 
mence feeding in 40 to 45 days. 
| Price per 
Beefsteak (Prizehead)....... 
Big Boston. acne $1 
Black Seeded Simpson... 15 
Chicken or Rabbit 
Cos. Paris White. . 
Early Curled Simpson....... 
Grand Rapids........ 3 
Great Lakes (14 oz. 40c)... Avi 
Iceberg... é 
N.Y., L.A. or Wonderful. ais 
Oak Leaf... 
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Salad Bowl...... 
Slobolt... 
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$0.15 
Burgess Seed & Plant Co., Galesburg, Michigan 17 
