. Descriptive catalog of vegetables. Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs. BREEDERS AND GROWERS. 55. Great Lakes: a vigorous and reliable variety Days GRAND RAPIDS, 43 One of the most popular loose-leaved varieties. Plants erect and compact; leaves light green, broad, wavy, curly, and heavily fringed. GREAT LAKES, 83 A sure-heading variety, dependable for summer production, developed at the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Leaves large, thick, glossy and well-folded; ribs heavy. Slow-b
. Descriptive catalog of vegetables. Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs. BREEDERS AND GROWERS. 55. Great Lakes: a vigorous and reliable variety Days GRAND RAPIDS, 43 One of the most popular loose-leaved varieties. Plants erect and compact; leaves light green, broad, wavy, curly, and heavily fringed. GREAT LAKES, 83 A sure-heading variety, dependable for summer production, developed at the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Leaves large, thick, glossy and well-folded; ribs heavy. Slow-bolting, shows considerable resistance to tipburn. HANSON (Nonpareil), 80 An old hardy variety for home and market gardens. Head large, globular, compact; leaves large, broad and curly, light yellowish green. Iceberg, 84 For home gardens and local markets. Head soft, crumpled, with light green leaves tinged at the edges with reddish brown. Quite different from the ship- ping variety, New York, which is usually called Iceberg in the produce trade. Imperial No. 17, .. 83 A distinctive variety of limited adaptation in the Southwest, developed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and California Experiment Station. Head large with interior well bleached, ribs small. Foliage dark green with spiral arrangement effectively covering the head. Imperial No. 44, _ 82 A development from Imperial No. 152; heads better in warm weather and is appreciably less subject to tipburn. Hard, well formed head, with long leaves. Imperial No. 101, 86 Very similar to No. 615, from which it was selected by the Hollister Seed Co., but coarser. Relatively slow to bolt. Imperial D, 83 Resistant to brown blight and partially resistant to mildew. Suffers from tip- burn, but good for fall planting in the warmer areas. Head dark green, large, firm, somewhat coarse, of good quality. Resists frost damage better than most other New York Please note that these images are extracted
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