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Mr. Bibb's Lettuce
Manuscripts Collection 38, B2, F1c, 21
John B. Bibb of Frankfort, Kentucky, the developer of Bibb lettuce, writes to his cousin Samuel Starling of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in a letter dated May 2, 1878, the following: "...my lettuce has been unusually good, two or three families have been geting some, at last one or two are begining to save seed and help me in giving to others."




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