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Beets are so easily grown and can be used in so many ways, they should be in every garden 17 
The sugar and starch, as well as mineral 
salts, contained in beets make them a valu- 
able crop for summer use or winter storage. 
CULTURE—For earilest use and market sow seed of any round sort ; packet will sow a row about 25 feet long; use 1 ounce to 100 feet; 5 to6 
under glass, in February or March, and transplant to open ground in | lbs. per acre. The round and turnip shaped beets are best for spring 
March or April. Seed for main crop may be sown in the early spring | and summer; the half long kinds tor winter. Make Successional plant- 
as soon as ground can be worked. For table beets sow in drills 18 | ings ard cultivate freely. They are fit for use in 39 to 65 days. Beet 
inches apart, and thin to stand3 to4 inches apart in the rows. A | tops are much used for greens, being cooked like spinach. 


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« Miaule’s Blood Turnip Beet 
The Best of Them All. 
Maule’s Blood Turnip beet has given such excellent satisfaction that it still retains its posi- 
tion at the head of our list, and for years the amount of catalogue space occupied by illustrations 
and devoted to descriptions of this variety, has been unquestionably one of the most profitable in 
our Seed Book. We first gave prominent notice to Maule’s Blood Turnip beet in our catalogue 
of 1889; the sales then were large, but today, 31 years later, they are nine times greater than ever. 
A consistent steady demand from the same people year after year for this variety should be sufficient 
endorsement for all gardeners to know that in planting Maule’s Blood Turnip, they are planting 
“as good a turnip beet as can be found the world over, and a variety that owing to its small top 
makes it especially desirable for bunching. Maule’s Blood Turnip beet is very early, nearly as 
early as Egyptian, ready for the table in about 50 days. The color is a rich dark red, and 
‘shape is globular. It is free from side or fibrous roots, being always smooth. It is excellent for 
forcing for a4 main spring or summer crop,.or for use in winter, as it isa good keeper. It always 
euts and cooks a rich, dark blood red; is tender, sweet and crisp, and is in every way the 
‘standard sort for the market or home gardener. Has made a good crop seven weeks from 
sowing. Maule’s Blood Turnip beet, has long been regarded as the standard of excellence by 
more than 65,000 successful gardeners, who plant it year after year in preference to any other. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; quarter pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00; 10 pounds, $17.50, postpaid. 






| Market Gardeners and Florists 
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raising vegetables or flowers for sale, send a postal card request for it to-day. 



