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Crosby's Egyptian (Slokes) an excellent stock 



\ Seven pounds will plant 



an acre. 



The Two Stokes Strains 



FOCUSING our attention on just two varieties of Beet, we have made it our business to offer our trade the very finest stocks available. 

 Crosby's Egyptian (Stokes) represents an excellent' strain of this famous shipping variety. This is a blood-red strain and replaces 

 both our Crosby Bright and Crosby Dark as offered last year. Detroit Dark Red (Stokes) we consider to be one of the outstandingly 

 fine stocks offered in this catalog. Very rarely can we offer anything with the same degree of confidence and enthusiasm as we do this. 

 Canners will find it of special value because of its unusually rich interior color. After listing Century Beet for about fifteen years we are 

 now forced to discontinue it on account of the restricted commercial demand. The shape of Century is against it, but we still believe it is 

 the best eating beet in the entire list. It can probably be purchased from other houses under the name of Winter Keeper or All Seasons. 



Crosby's Egyptian (Stokes) 



Outstanding Feature: Rich Interior Color 



SPECIFICATIONS: 

 Color purity 97% Date of Test: October, 1927 



Type purity 95% Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer) 



Germination 85% Days to maturity: 40-50 



Crosby's Egyptian is far and away the most important commercial 

 Beet in the United States and Canada. Crosby's Egyptian (Stokes) 

 will give genuine satisfaction wherever planted. We are particularly 

 pleased with the general uniformity of the type and. with the color 

 of the root both interior and exterior. The top growth of this strain 

 we would describe as of medium height. The stock shows very fine 

 selection in all points, including the slender tap root. Our illustra- 

 tion will convey some idea of this stock. Growers can place every 

 confidence in it. 



Price delivered: no packets; oz. lOcts., lb. 25 cts., lb. 65 cts., 

 10 lbs. (g) 60 cts. per lb., 50 lbs. @ 55 cts. per lb. 



Detroit Dark Red (Stokes) 



Outstanding Features: Pure, red interior color. 

 True Detroit depth 



SPECIFICATIONS: 



Color purity: 99.5% 

 Type purity 96 % 

 Germination 84% 



Date of Test: October, 1927 

 Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer) 

 Days to maturity: 45-55 



Because of the importance of Detroit both as a canning and a 

 shipping beet we have taken great care to produce a stock that will 

 be a credit to us and to those who plant it. Above all other points 

 the matter of deep, blood-red interior color is of the greatest im- 

 portance. Detroit Dark Red (Stokes) reaches an extremely high 

 mark in that respect. We know of no other stock that can approach 

 it regardless of price. Canners and shippers can place great con- 

 fidence in this statement and in the specifications noted herewith. 



Price delivered t no packets; oz. 10 cts., Vi lb. 25 cts., lb. 75 cts., 

 10 lbs. @ 70 cts. per lb., 50 lbs. @ 65 cts. per »b. 



Yes, of course, there will be those to telj us we have gone too far in simplification. 



proof of the pudding is in the planting. 



Perhaps we have, but in this case the 



