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BEET. 



( IRIMSOM < ■ LOBE. 



Aii entirely distinct variety introduced in L900 by Peter Henderson 

 & Co. 



Different from other kinds principally in its deep dark crimson 

 color, and valuable on this account as well as for earliness, beautiful 

 globe shape, and perfectly smooth roots, which are entirely free from 

 root hails, rootlets, and markings. The taproot is also very fine and 

 slender and the top very smooth, with small crown. The roots are, 

 however, very small, but, the leaves being also small and very erect in 

 habit, the plants can be grown very close together and large crops 

 obtained. The leaves are dark green in color. The flesh is a deep 

 crimson and beautifully zoned with dark crimson and a lighter shade; 

 the quality is very sweet and tender, never coarse nor woody. The 

 season is about the same as Detroit Dark Red. 



Seed furnished by T. \V Wood A Sons, Richmond, Va. 



LETTUCE. 

 Wood's ( Iabbage. 



This appears to be a strain of the well-known Hubbard's Market and 

 was named and introduced in 1884 by T. W. Wood & Sons, of Rich- 

 mond. Va. This is not at all a new variety or (Men a distinct sort, but 

 is deserving of attention as an especially pure and even stock of Hub- 

 bard's Market, from which it was probably developed. 



The plant is medium early, medium large, thick-leaved, very solid 

 and compact, strictly cabbage-heading- in habit, and medium dark solid 

 green in color. It is a good all-round variety, answering splendidly 

 for both forcing under glass and growing outdoors either in early 

 spring or midsummer. The quality is very tine, being tender and 

 sweet and of a slightly buttery flavoi. The plants are hardy and slow 

 to go to seed. 



Seed furnished by T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va. 



SQUASH. 



Wood's Earliest Prolific. 



Originated with market gardeners in Hanover County, Va., and 

 introduced by T. W. Wood & Sons in 1807. It is similar in all 

 respects to the well-known White Bush Scallop, but is said* by the 

 originators to be a week to ten days earlier and with scallops not 

 quite so decided and more evenly rounded on the edge. 



This variety is a t} T pe of the summer squash seen everywhere very 

 early in our markets, and known as cymling in some places and patty- 

 pan in others. The plants are strictly bush in habit and the fruits 



