. Landreth seeds Philadelphia : American grown seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Pennsylvania Philadelphia. LETTUCE. Two Ounces of Seed to 100 Yards of Row. Fotir Ponnds to tlie Acre. Forty to Fifty Days from Seeding to Slaturlty. To have fine Lettuce in earlv Spring, sow in seed bed from commencement to middle of Autumn. During Winter protect the plants by a box covered with window or other sash, or with litter, as thev stand on the ground. Early in the Spring
. Landreth seeds Philadelphia : American grown seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Pennsylvania Philadelphia. LETTUCE. Two Ounces of Seed to 100 Yards of Row. Fotir Ponnds to tlie Acre. Forty to Fifty Days from Seeding to Slaturlty. To have fine Lettuce in earlv Spring, sow in seed bed from commencement to middle of Autumn. During Winter protect the plants by a box covered with window or other sash, or with litter, as thev stand on the ground. Early in the Spring transplant some into rich ground. The others force under the sash. Or in earlv Spring sow in a hotbed and transplant, but Autumn-sown plants are best. For a later supply, sow ui drills when the Cherry is in bloom ; when up a few inches thin out. leaving plants at projier distances: this is a better plan than transplantnig late m the season. For this purpose use Blooms- dale Reliable, Landreths' Forcing, Virsinia Solid Header and heat-resisting varieties, which we have selected as standard sorts by reason of their ability to resist heat and the longer time thev are in condition for the table than some other kinds which shoot to seed as soon as the head is Lettixe—In Seed. Loose Leaved or Cutting Varieties. BLACK-SEEDED SIMPSON.—A cutting variety of unusual merit; not so golden as Silesian, but by some preferred. Pkts. 5c. and 10c.; jx^r i oz. 10c. i "WHITE CURLED SIMPSON.—A cutting variety similar to and in:- mediately following the Silesian. Pkts. 5c. and 10c.; per oz. 10c. EARLY CURLED SILESIAN.—A cutting_ variety; the sfcond to produce edible leaves. II does not head. Fkts. 5c. and 10c.; per oz. 10c. GOLDEN CURLED.—New sort. A golden-leaved sort, producing a half head of rare excellence: leaves much fluted on the edges; very showy anil a most admirable cutting sort. Pkts. 5c. and 10c.; per oz. 15c. BRONZED CURLED.—New sort. A half-cabljaging variety
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