Plant Inventory No. 199, Parti - The Germplasm Resources ...

PI 536692 to 536864-continuedPI 536777 origin: United States. cultivar: BURPEES CELTUCE.remarks: Combines uses of celery and lettuce. Youngleaves have four times the vitamin C content of lettuce.When plants are young, the leaves may be used as lettuceor as boiling "greens", but its chief value is the heartof the central stem which may be eaten raw or cooked inthe same way that celery would be prepared. Grown thesame as lettuce. Annual. Cultivar. Seed.PI 536778origin: United States.Cultivar. Seed.cultivar: EMPIRE.Annual.PI 536779origin: United States.Cultivar. Seed.cultivar: MERIT.Annual.PI 536780origin: United States.Cultivar. Seed.cultivar: LAKELAND.AnnualPI 536781PI 536782PI 536783PI 536784PI 536785origin: United States. cultivar: BRONZE BEAUTY.remarks: Similar to Oakleaf. Leaf lettuce type with long,narrow leaves; margins deeply lobed and scalloped lightgreen color, overlaid with warm ruddy bronze sheen.Produces compact plants, widely adapted. Used in homegardens. Annual. Cultivar. Seed.origin: United States. cultivar: EIFFEL TOWER. remarks:Maturity 65 days. Seeds black. Tall, compact variety withwell folded leaves; more cylindrical than the more usualcos shape. Annual. Cultivar. Seed.origin: United States. cultivar: GREAT LAKES OROVERDE.remarks: Maturity 90-100 days. Large, very durable crispheading variety with wide range of planting dates. Headswell-formed, protected by many wrapper leaves. Excellentbase and excellenct packer and shipper. Cold tolerance.Annual. Cultivar. Seed.origin: United States, cultivar: IMPERIAL 44. remarks:Similar to Imperial 152. Medium green color, medium sizeround head, semi-bald, slight savoying of frame leaves.Resistance to tipburn, and brown blight. Adapted toSouthwest and East United States. Annual, Cultivar.Seed.origin:SimilarUnited States. cultivar: IMPERIAL 152. remarks:to Imperial F and New York. Heads round, slightlyLighter green than otherto tipburn. Resistant toplanting in desert valleysflattened, partially exposed.Imperial strains. Susceptiblebrown blight. Adapted to fallof Arizona and California; spring and fall inValley, California. Annual. Cultivar. SeedSalinas22