6 SEED CATALOGUE 0/ L. L. AT A V ^ CO., ST. PAUL, MINN. 
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'Northern Groam" Seeds Are Best 
Seedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen 
May's Fine Grained Rich Red Table Beets 
MAY'S MARKET GARDENER 
THIS IS ANOTHER early variety and a great fa- 
vorite with the truckers on account of uni- 
formity of size and symmetry of shape. In color 
it is a deep red outside, inside a deep carmine. It 
is finely grained, unsurpassed in quality, tenderness 
and sweetness. It continues to grow until late in the 
fall, attaining a large size as a winter beet 
One sowing only is necessary to produce a 
crop for early summer marketing and a 
main crop for winter use. Packet 10c., 
ounce 20c., }^-pound 50c., pound$1.75 
MAY'S 
Early Eclipse 
To THE GROWER desiring a 
very early crop toe would 
recommend this variety as the 
first to be ready for table use 
and therefore able to command 
a high price on the market. It 
is perfectly smooth and round. The 
skin and fiesh are a deep red — 
very sweet, tender and succulent 
It does not grow to a very large size 
but is of a fine grain and meatiness 
not possible to the 
MAY'S Crimson Globe 
THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY fine second early or main crop 
beet. It measures about 3 inches in diameter, is 
slightly oblong in form, entirely free from fibrous roots 
and so smooth of skin and regular of form that when 
washed it has the appearance of a highly polished dark red 
ball. The flesh is deep crimson, very tender, and abso- 
lutely without the stringiness or woodiness 
which so often characterizes the ordinary 
beet. Packet Sc., ounce 20c., 14-pound 
SOc, pound $1.75. 
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LWAYS obtain your seed from 
Northern Grown Stock if 
you want good seed. "Like pro- 
duces like", therefore good 
selected Northern Grown Seed 
should be planted. Of the 
many varieties that claim 
public favor, we have selected 
only a few, and these the best 
in cultivation. We aim to in- 
clude in our lists all new sorts, 
together with the best of the older 
kinds. Northern Grown Seed should 
be used by the man who "starts 
anything" and wishes to see "results.' 
Prices are quoted on pounds 
and they also include 
postage. 
MAY'S 
MARKET 
GARDENER 
Cultural Directions 
/^ARDEX BEETS ARE EASiLV CROWN and form a rcHoblc crop. For early use select early varieties, planting one inch deep in rows 16 inches apart, 10 seeds to 
^ the foot of row, as soon as the ground can be worked, the young plants being able to stand quite a severe frost without injury. Cultivate seedlings as 
toon as they appear and when they are 8 or 10 inch'!s high thin out until the plants are 6 inches apart. By this process they will be large enough for use in 
June. If desired unusually early the seed may be cown under glass and the seedlings transplanted, but for winter use seed should not be sown until the 
last of May or the first of June, and for a succession of crop sow at intervals until the middle of July. For the earliest sowings a light dressing of nitrate 
of soda, io the proportion of 100 pounds to the acre, is very good. 
