D. M. Ferry &. Co s Descriptive Catalogue. 
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Yellow Globe Mangel Wurzel. 
D. M. Ferry & Co's Improved Mammoth Long 
Red Mangel Wurzel. 
D. M. Ferry & Co’s Improved Mammoth Long 
Red Mangel Wurzel.—An improvement on the old 
variety. The roots are uniformly straight and well 
formed, and deeper colored than the common sort. 
Highly recommended for stock feeding. 
Norbitan Giant Long Red Mangel Wurzel.— 
Very large, growing well out of ground. The roots are 
well formed, straight, smooth, and of a fine scarlet color, 
with comparatively small top and neck. 
Yellow Globe Mangel Wurzel.—A large, round, 
orange colored variety, of excellent quality, which keeps 
better than the Long Red, and produces better crops on 
shallow soil. 
Carter’s Warden Prize Yellow Globe Mangel 
Wurzel.—A most excellent, yellow fleshed, globe vari¬ 
ety. The tops are small, and the roots, although large, 
are of excellent quality. Average weight fifteen to 
eighteen pounds. Highly recommended for shallow soil. 
Yellow Ovoid.—Root ovoid, intermediate between 
the long and globe varieties; flesh solid, usually white, 
zoned with yellow; hardy, vigorous and productive. 
Red Globe Mangel Wurzel.—Similar to Yellow 
Globe, except in color, which is a light red or pink. 
Swiss Chard, Silver, or Sea Kale Beet.—A dis¬ 
tinct vegetable, and much superior to the common beet 
for greens. If sown at the same time it will be fit to use 
before them. Later, the plants form broad, flat beauti¬ 
ful white and wax like stems to the leaves which are 
very delicious cooked as beets, or pickled. We recom¬ 
mend all of our customers to try it. 
The following varieties 
are used for stock feeding. 
They are easily grown and 
harvested,keep well through 
the winter, and give an im¬ 
mense amount of cattle food 
at a small cost, but need a 
rich, well prepared soil. Sow 
in drills thirty inches apart, 
as early as the ground can I 
be got in condition. Culti¬ 
vate well when young, and 
thin out the plants to one 
foot apart in the row. If j 
these thinnings are carefully 
handled and the larger 
leaves cut off they can easily 
be reset to fill vacancies, 
and will make the largest | 
roots. Care should be taken 
not to break or bruise the 
roots in harvesting. 
French Yellow Sugar, 
—Grows to a large size,much 
above ground; roots half 
long, yellow; grown in this 
country for feeding stock. 
In France it is cultivated ex- 
Vilmorin S Improved tensively for the extraction 
Imperial Sugar. of sugar. 
Vilmorin’s Improved Imperial Sugar.—An' im¬ 
proved variety from France. It affords the largest 
percentage of sugar of any known variety. 
Lane’s Improved Imperial Sugar.—This superb 
variety is the result of a careful selection for several 
years of the French Imperial Sugar Beet. After careful 
trial we recommend it as being hardy, productive and 
very sweet. 
Long Red Mang-el Wurzel.—A large, long variety, 
grown for stock feeding. It stands a good deal out of 
ground; color light red; flesh white and rose colored. 
