. Catalog Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CULTURE—For best results with lettuce, keep growing rapidly. A light, rich soil will do this. For earliest varieties, start seed in a cold-frame in fall and protect throush the winter. Transplant to open ground as soon as the ground can be worked. For later use, sow seed in the open ground when the season will permit, in rows 12 to 18 inches apart. Thin the plants in the rows to 4 to 8 inches depending- on the variety. 1 oz. will sow 100 ft. 2 lbs. to acre. PEST C
. Catalog Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CULTURE—For best results with lettuce, keep growing rapidly. A light, rich soil will do this. For earliest varieties, start seed in a cold-frame in fall and protect throush the winter. Transplant to open ground as soon as the ground can be worked. For later use, sow seed in the open ground when the season will permit, in rows 12 to 18 inches apart. Thin the plants in the rows to 4 to 8 inches depending- on the variety. 1 oz. will sow 100 ft. 2 lbs. to acre. PEST CONTROL Agrainst Downy Mildew use Acme Bordeaux Mix- ture. Great Lakes (All-America 1944 Bronze Award) Heading Varieties Great Lakes—Won Bronze Medal in 1944 All American Selection. Iceberg type heat-resistant lettuce, slow to throw up seed head. Good crisp head. Try this fine new variety.—Pkt. 15c—Oz. 50c—V&, Lb. $—Postpaid. Wonderful or New York—78 days. Much used as a fall and winter market vari- ety. Plants are very large, strong and robust, withstanding both hot and dry weather and are slow to run to seed. The inner leaves form a large head and are a beautiful yellow color. Heads frequent- ly weigh 3 to 4 lbs.—Pkt. 10c—Oz. 40c— —Va, Lb. $—Postpaid. Iceberg—75 days. A large crisp cabbage- heading variety with very firm and hard heads and well blanched, often sown in August for fall use. Leaves are medium green color with faint brown tracing on border —Pkt. 10c— Oz. 30c— y4 Lb. $ — Big Boston—65 days. Very popular for outdoor culture and also in demand as a compact, large-heading, forcing variety for cold frame. Leaves are bright green, heads slightly tinged with reddish-brown. Heads up under cold weather conditions better than any other variety.—Pkt. 10c —Oz. 30c—Ve, Lb. 75c—Postpaid. Improved Hanson Lettuce—75 days. A most desirable late summer variety; stands hot, dry weather better than most summer va
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