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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
BEET. 
DANIELS’ CRIMSON PERFECTION. Reduced from a Ihotografh. 
Cultivation. — To ensure a crop of good Beetroot, it is of the highest importance that the seed should be of the very best strain procurable 
such as offered by ourselves. Another very important point to observe is that the ground must not be specially manured for this crop, a good plan 
being to select a plot that has been cropped during the previous season with French Beans, Potatoes, or Celery. The soil should be a good light loam 
where possible, and in an open part of the garden ; the ground should be deeply treuched (the deeper the better) quite early in the season. Before' 
sowing, the ground should be made firm and level. 
Sow the seed any time from the middle of April to the end of May. For an early crop New Red Globe is one of the best. Daniels’ Crimson Perfection* 
and Green Top will be found the most useful for a general crop. The seed should be sown in drills one inch deep and about 18 inches from row to* 
row. A liberal quantity of seed should be used to ensure a good plant, and when the seedlings are nicely up, they should be thinned out, leaving 
them about 9 inches apart. As a rule those sown at the end of May produce roots of better quality. Keep the beds regularly hoed and weeded so that 
the soil may be free about the plants. 
When specimen roots are wanted for Exhibition, it is the usual practice to make holes about 2 feet deep in the bed with a crowbar, and fill them 
with fine soil. The seeds are sown in these and thinned out, one plant being left to each hole. In this way splendidly shaped roots are grown. 
The crop should be lifted in October and stored in dry sand in a shed or cellar for Winter use. Care should be taken that the roots are not injured 
in any way, or they will bleed and lose quality ; also the leaves should not be cut but twisted off with the hand. In this way the roots may be kept until 
the following Summer. 
per on. — a. a, 
PT DANIELS’ CRIMSON PERFECTION SALAD, 
A grand dark-leaved variety of medium size and very 
symmetrical. The flesh, which is of the finest texture, 
is deep crimson in colour and of excellent quality. 
A first-class sort for exhibition. Owing to the fine 
deep colour of its foliage it is very valuable for orna- 
mental purposes . . . . per pkt, 6d. 1 6 
DANIELS’ BLACK QUEEN. Fine dark-leaved variety, roots medium 
in size, and of good shape and colour . . per pkt. 3d. 0 9 
CHELTENHAM GREEN-TOP. Roots very dark, of excellent quality ; 
one of the best for pickling . . . . per pkt. 3d. 0 9 
DARK RED SALAD. A very useful variety, roots of a good deep 
colour . . . . ... . . . . . . ..06 
DRAC/ENA-LEAVED. A highly ornamental variety for the Flower 
Garden. The leaves are fine, long, and of a deep rich crimson. 
The root is of fine quality and excellent colour per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
pci o'/..— s, d. 
DANIELS’ GREEN-TOP. This splendid Green-top 
Beet is chiefly remarkable for the fine deep colour of the 
roots, which are of excellent shape and of first-class 
quality and flavour . . . . per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
DELL’S BLACK. A fine dark-foliaged variety, roots small, but of 
exceptionally fine 6hape and colour . . per pkt. 3d. 0 9> 
EGYPTIAN DARK RED TURNIP-ROOTED. One of the best for 
Summer Salads, as it comes to maturity very early . . ..06’ 
NEW RED GLOBE. A valuable variety for early use. The roots 
are of fine globular shape, of rich colour and excellent flavour. 
It should be used early, if allowed to stand too long it loses as 
to quality. Useful for exhibition . . . . per pkt. 4d. 1 fr 
NUTTING’S D WARF RED. Fine dark foliage . . „ 3d. 0 10 
i PRAGNELL’S EXHIBITION. A fine dark-leaved variety, roots very 
handsome and of good colour . . . . per pkt. 4cl. 1 0 
i SILVER SEA KALE. The leaves make an excellent substitute for 
Spinach . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 0> 
“ Your Vegetable Seeds last year were wonderful ; not one failed.” — Mr. J. DUTTON, 
Runcorn. 
“ All your Vegetable Seeds were the finest I have ever grown.” — Mrs. WORTHING- 
TON, Templemore. 
“The Seeds I had from vou last year proved excellent. I took five First Prizes.” — 
Mr. T. BARBER, Beeding. 
” I took First Prize with your Red Globe Beet lost year.”— Mr. T. MORTIMER, 
Llanharran. 
“ I might say that I have never grown any better vegetables than those from your 
Seeds.” Mr. R. LEGG, Swindon. 
“ I was very successful in exhibiting the produce from your Seeds, of which I cannot 
speak too highly.” — Mr. J. DEWIS, Nuneaton. 
