BURBANK'S 1921 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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Improved "Quinoa" (Chenopodium quinoa) 
A Delicious New but Ancient Breakfast Food 
This annual, easily grown plant bears heavily a highly nutritious, extremely 
valuable, greatly prized grain food— a small white seed produced in profusion on 
plants about four feet in height, which is harvested much like other grains. The 
fact that it contains about four times as much gluten as the best wheat (40 per cent 
or more) proves chemically its very great nutritive value. The outer husk also 
contains about 17 per cent vegetable potash. Belonging, as "Quinoa" does, to the 
beet-spinach family, the young, tender plants make excellent greens. 
By sowing the seeds early around the edges of fields and gardens, or in fields 
like corn or wheat, a good supply may be raised anywhere in almost any climate. 
The seed, when dry, is prepared directly for food simply by pounding a few 
minutes in a sack to remove the outer husk, then it is rinsed and cooked two hours 
or more. It is also ground and used for bread and cakes. Everybody likes it. 
Everybody thrives on it. Everybody should raise it. 
Burbank Selection White Quinoa Seed, per packet, 15c; three, 40c; six, 60c; 
ounce $1. 
LovETT, Ga., May 10, 1918. — I planted a little package of your improved "Quinoa" seed and am 
surprised at the heavy crop produced. Believe it will more than double the crops of any of the 
cereals. The plants are simply laden with seed heads which are now rapidly ripening. I feel that 
the crop from the little package will give me at least half a bushel of clean seed. An acre at this 
rate would run from seventy to eighty bushels of clean seed. J. P. M. 
"One of the new foods is a species of pigweed, which by cultivation has become a valuable 
seed plant, much prized by the Incas as a food staple. The seed of this plant is said to be fully 
T?"^l, }? .^^^"^'^^^ nutriment, in which case it should be a most valuable acquisition." — "Good 
Health" Magazine. 
Parsnip ^ most carefully selected strain of the smooth, sweet "Hollow Crown." 
The best of all. Packet, 10c; ounce, 30c. 
A New Flax The "Burbank" United States of America produces an 
average of thirty-three million dollars' worth 
ot tlax seed annually. Its uses are too well known and too numerous to mention. 
Some ten years ago a company of French artists urgently requested me to produce 
a flax which would make a natural limpid white oil, as the clear colors of their 
pictures were blurred and deadened by the oils which they were obliged to use. 
From a small sample of seeds from some light brown East Indian flax which they 
had obtained, and which reverted to the original dark for several years, I have 
now to off'er the most remarkable flax ever produced. The seeds of the "Burbank" 
o/" nearly double the size of any other, are of a beautiful limpid white, and 
yield twelve per cent more oil per pound of seed. The oil is more readily ex- 
tracted and with less wuste. The plants are fully as productive as the ordinary 
flax. The "Burbank" Flax will be welcomed not only by artists, but by painters in 
general, manufacturers of oil cloths and linoleums, by druggists, and for home 
use by everybody. An extremely hardy, vigorous variety. 
Per packet of 100 seeds, 25c. 
White Sugar Beet "Wanzleben" The beet so extensively planted for the 
, . , , sugar factories. It is also tender and 
dehciously sweet when young. Packet, 10c; ounce, 15c; pound, $1.50. 
New Rainbow Chard or Asparagus Beet crossing the improved Swiss 
Chard with the sweet table beets, 
a more vigorous strain has been produced with enormous leaves and stalks of 
white, pink, green, scarlet, crimson, orange, and yellow. Both the broad, succu- 
lent stalks and leaves exhibit a mingling of wonderful iridescent rainbow shades. 
The leaves are deeply crimped and pitted like the Savoy cabbage. Nothing in the 
garden can be so easily raised, and no other vegetable produces such a vast and 
perpetual supply of delicious and healthful succulent food, as delicious as the 
best garden spinach. Packet, 15c; ounce, 25c; pound, $3. 
MoAB, Wash., Feb. 11, 1920.— This is my third year raising your "Rainbow" Chard, for my 
family can not find anything to compare with it in chards. Capt. F. H. M. 
Carlin Bay, Idaho, Aug. 18, 1919.— The "Rainbow" Chard is surely wonderful. We have been 
using It all summer for greens. I never tasted anything so good and it has done so well it is a 
pleasure to watch it grow. E D_ 
San Francisco, Cal.— From your Rainbow Chard seed Ave have been using the greens for my 
nll^ large, tender leaves, which I have 'been taking from these plants all summer, 
and they have not yet started to send up seed stalks, which I And the other chard does. If you 
quTckly lit me° know ^^^ich will produce a large lot of greens for chickens and will not seed 
Ottumwa, Iowa, Jan. 13, 1919.— I want to commend your Swiss Chard Beet for greens. We 
Ihink It is equal to spinach and it is the only greens that I can state I really like. A. T. G. 
n,-!^'„''n^''^r"^'i^"'!?-', 1919 — We had lost our taste for Swiss Chard from using the 
wel cannPrT?,; th^r ^'."n' ^i"* "Rai^^ow" variety brought it back two-fold. It did especially 
well, canned in the CqIcI Pjt<;k method, R, M, E, 
