Beets are so easily grown and can be used in so many ways, that they should be in every garden 



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TABLE BEETS 



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 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. A 



packet will sow a row about 25 feet long; use 1 ounce to 100 feet; 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 plant- 

 ings and cultivate freely. They are fit for use in 40 to 65 days. Beet 

 tops are much used for greens, being cooked like spinach. 



66 Maule's Blood Turnip Beet 



The Best of Them All. For Colored Illustration See Front Cover 



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, 30 years later, they are eight 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, 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. Maule's Blood Turnip beet, has long been regarded as the standard of excellence by 

 more than 60,000 successful gardeners, who plant it year after year in preference to any other. 



Packet, 10 ccnls; ounce, 30 cents; quarter pound, 85 cents; pound, $3.00; 10 pounds, $27.50, postpaid. 



Market Gardeners and Florists 



Have you received our Special Market Gardeners' Price List? If not, and you are 

 raising vegetables or flowers for sale, send a postal card request for it to-day. 



