. A descriptive list of vegetable varieties. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 32 FERRY-MORSE SEED A field of Leffuce for seed producfion on one of our California ranches LETTUCE (Cont.) LOOSE LEAVED VARIETIES Days BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON, b. s. 45 Early. Dependable in all parts of America and widely grown in home and market gardens. Plant large, attractive, compact, with broad, frilled light green leaves that are of fine crisp texture and splendid quality. CHICKEN LETTUCE, w. s 45 Very hardy, rapid growing, medium light green, non-heading
. A descriptive list of vegetable varieties. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 32 FERRY-MORSE SEED A field of Leffuce for seed producfion on one of our California ranches LETTUCE (Cont.) LOOSE LEAVED VARIETIES Days BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON, b. s. 45 Early. Dependable in all parts of America and widely grown in home and market gardens. Plant large, attractive, compact, with broad, frilled light green leaves that are of fine crisp texture and splendid quality. CHICKEN LETTUCE, w. s 45 Very hardy, rapid growing, medium light green, non-heading butter type which produces flower stalks early and furnishes an abundance of leaves over a long period of growth. EARLY CURLED SIMPSON, w. s 45 Early. Also well known as "White Seeded ; Very hardy and dependable; particularly popular for home gardens. Plant large, compact, bright light lustrous green; leaves broad, frilled, firm, crisp, sweet and of good quality. GRAND RAPIDS, b. s 42 Very early. Hardy, disease resistant; the most widely used and best adapted variety for greenhouse forcing. Plants large, upright, compact and handsome; bright solid light green; leaves large, broad, margin much waved and frilled; very tender and sweet when grown under glass. GRAND RAPIDS, TIP BURN RESISTANT, b. s 42 Said to be resistant to tip burn when grown commercially under glass. Leaf texture and plant tj^e the same as the Arlington strain of Grand Rapids Forcing. Has a tendency to form heads when grown outdoors, and the leaves are not so frilled but more savoyed than the regular Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS U. S. NO. 1, b. s. (Mildew Resistant) 42 Developed by Dr. I. C. Jagger of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is resistant to mildew. About the same as Grand Rapids except that the leaf margins of U. S. No. 1 are little more deeply cut and heavily frilled; the color a little duller and lighter green. Recommended for general planting as it stands longer without boltin
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