EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS 



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BEETS. 



Variety. 



Colambia..- 



Crimson Chief 



Detroit Dark Red 



Dirigo Blood Tarnip 



Debbie's New Purple 



Electric 



Liandreth's Very Early_. 



Long Blood Red 



Shull's Model B'ood Turnip. 



Stinson Dark 



Surprise 



Egyptian Turnip Rooted 



Seedsman. 



Burpee 



Johnson & Stokes.. 



Ferry 



U. S. Dept. Agr. 



Dobbie& Co. 



Henderson 



Landreth 



Landreth 



Buist 



Burpee 



Johnson & Stokes. 

 John 8. King 



Remarks. 



Five to six inches diameter, round, rega- 



lar, rich color. 

 Four to five inches diameter, dark crim- 

 son, hard and firm, quality not best. 

 Excellent spBcimens of the class; good 



form, color and qnality. 

 Dark flesh, firm and sweet, not crisp or 



tender, form irregular. 

 Long Blood class: good form and color. 



watery, quality not best. 

 Regular form, color light, not of higb 



quality. 

 Fine form, flesh nearly white, color 



against it. 

 Excellent specimens of class. 



Perfect form, flesh very firm, crisp, sweet 



and tender, bright crimson. 

 Wood form, very dark, firm, flesh of good 



quality. 

 Not of regular form, flesh white, sweet. 



not very solid or crisp. 

 An improvement over old Egyptian. 



The varieties of beets were planted May 18. Whea the roots were from 

 two and one-half to three inches in diameter they were taken to be of 

 edible size, and the dates given in the table above. 



Surprise was earliest to mature, but the color and quality are not of the 

 best. Its earliness, however, is a strong point in its favor. 



Egyptian Turnip Rooted. John S, King, England. Early. 



It seems to be an improvement in form, firmness and quality over old 

 type of Egyptian. 



Columbia is a little earlier than the Blood Turnip sorts, and equal to 

 them in form and quality. A very desirable sort. 



ShuWs Model Blood Tarnip wag perfect in form, very firm flesh which 

 was crisp and tender. Its fiae form, quality and earliness make it one of 

 the best of the Blood Turnip beets. 



Long Blood is an excellent sort for winter use. 



Egyptian or Eclipse for first early, Bassano for greens, Shull's Model 

 Blood Tarnip, or any of the Blood Turnip class with Half-long or Long 

 Blood would give an excellent list of varieties for the garden or for 

 market. 



CABBAGE, 



Sixty-eight varieties were selected for the test in cabbages. 



The seed of the early sorts was sown in small boxes in the forcing 

 house, March 16; the medium varieties were sown April 23, and the late 

 ones May 19. 



As soon as the third leaf appeared on the seedlings they were pricked 

 out into flats and allowed to grow until the time of transplanting in the 

 field, when twenty-five plants of each variety were set in rows three and 

 one-half feet apart. 



