12—Vegetable Seeds THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1911 
TABLE BEETS 
ounce to 100 feet of drill, and cover lightly;5 to 6 lbs. per acre. The 
round and turnip shaped beets are best for spring and summer; the half 
long kinds for winter. Make successional plantings and cultivate freely. 
Beet tops are much used for greens, and frequently form a profitable 
crop with many of my market gardener customers. 
- CULTURE.—For earliest use and market sow seed of any round sort 
under glass, in February or March, and transplant to open ground in 
March or April. Seed for main crop may be sown as soon as ground 
can be put into proper condition. For table beets sow in drills 18 
inches apart, and thin to stand3 to4 inches apart in the rows. Use 1 
MAULE’S BLOOD TURNIP BEET. 
« Maule’s Blood Turnip Beet 
The Best of Them All 
Beets may come and beets may go, but this old standby still retains its position at the head 
of my list, and for years the square inches of catalogue space occupied by illustrations and 
descriptions of this variety have been by all odds some of the most profitable in my whole Seed 
Book. Last year I sold 20,536 separate 10-cent packets of this beet. To 8,145 other customers 
I sold an ounce package. I doubt if so many packets and ounces of any beet introduced last year 
by other seedsmen were sold at retail to so many different customers. I first gave prominent 
notice to Maule’s Blood Turnip Beet in my catalogue for 1889; the sales then were large, but 
today, 22 years later, they are three times greater than ever. A consistent steady demand from 
the same people year after year for from 10 to 25 pounds of 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, and greatly surpasses that variety in flavor. 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 a main spring or summer crop, or for use in winter, as it is a good keeper. It always 
cuts 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. In fact, Maule’s Blood Turnip Beet has long been regarded as the standard of excellence 
by more than 30,000 successful gardeners who plant it every year and year after year. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; quarter pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.50; 10 pounds, $12.50, postpaid. 
