12 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1912 



BLE BEET 



CuLTUKK. — 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 stand 3 to 4 inches apart in the rows. Use 1 



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 niuch used for greens, and frequently form a profitable 

 crop with many of my market gardener customers. 



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MAULE'S BLOOD TURNIP BEET. 



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^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 m}^ list, and for years the square inches of catalogue space occupied by illu.strations and 

 descriptions of this variety have been by all odds some of the most profitable in my whole Seed 

 Book. Last year I sold 20,877 separate 10-cent packets of this beet. To 8,256 other customers 

 I sold an ounce package. I doubt if so many packets and ounces of any beet previous^ introduced 

 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, 23 years later, they are four 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 mnter, 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. Maule's Blood Turnip Beet has long been regarded as the standard of excellence by 

 more than 32,000 successful gardeners. Crop very short. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; quarter pound, 50 cents; pound, $1.75, postpaid. 



