COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 
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Table Beets 
CULTURE—1 oz. will sow 50 feet of row, 4 lbs., to 
an acre. Plant beets when frost is out of the ground and 
the soil in workable condition. Have the rows 16 inches 
apart, plant moderately thick in the row and later thin out to 
4 inches in the row. The thinnings furnish excellent greens. 
Give frequent cultivation. 
EARLY BEET& —About 15th of February broadcast lb. of 
seed per sash in a hot bed that is not too warm, transplant 
on a cloudy day when your plants are about 6 in. tall using 
only good plants throwing away all weak ones. If your 
ground is in good shape you will get a crop of beets days 
ahead of field sown beets. 
CRIMSON GLOBE —Flesh blood red, slightly zoned. 
DEWING’S BLOOD TURNIP—Medium early. 
ECLIPSE —Smooth globe shaped, dark fleshed sort. 
ELECTRIC —Round, deep red with rings of lighter hue. 
HALF LONG BLOOD RED —Heavy smooth roots, very dark 
red. Price: Any of the above, pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; lb. 60c. 
LONG, SMOOTH, DARK RED —Roots long, smooth, heavy 
flesh black red, sweet and very tender. The best keeper. 
Price: Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; *4 lb. 20c; lb. 80c; 10 lbs. $6.00. 
BEETS FOR STOCK— See page 59. 
WHICH BEET IS THE BEST? 
For the earliest crop and for forcing try either Early Wonder 
or Iowa. For canning and for a maximum crop, Iowa and Detroit 
are hard to beat. The Egyptian beets are of highest quality and 
very dark in color but losing in favor possibly because more or less 
flatfish. For a market with large foreign population, try Select Long 
Smooth Blood. 
Swiss Chard 
Also called silver beet or spinach beet. Is grown exclusively 
for its leaves. The root never develops to a large size and is of no 
value. The leaves are carried on long, broad, thick stalks of which 
the leafy portion is used as spinach and the stalks or midribs like 
asparagus. It produces continually throughout the summer till frost 
and furnishes an abundance of excellent “greens” during the hot 
summer months when spinach cannot be grown. Culture same as 
for beets. 1 oz. for 100 ft. row, 4 lbs. per acre. 
Lucullus and Green Giant Swiss Chards are both savoyed and 
curly. However in some markets the curly Chards are not wanted 
and if the favor is shown the smooth leaved variety, our Silver Giant 
Chard, is the sort to grow. 
SWISS CHARD LUCULLUS 
Popular variety with leaves heavily crumpled, very large, stalks 
white, thick and tender, well flavored. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; lb. 80c; 
10 lbs. $5.00, prepaid. 
SWISS CHARD SILVER GIANT 
The leaves of Giant Silver Chard are smooth, not crum¬ 
pled, dark green, the stems silvery-white, very fleshy, very 
broad, tender and fine flavored. The plants are large, heavy 
and of fine appearance. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; % lb. 20c; lb. 80c. 
SWISS CHARD GREEN GIANT 
Leaves much darker green than those of any other vari¬ 
ety, crumpled and savoyed like spinach, about two feet long, 
about a foot wide with an immense snow-white fleshy midrib. 
Of excellent quality. Yields continuously from early summer 
until frost. Fully as tasty as spinach, devoid of all earthy 
flavor. The midribs are tender like asparagus, prepared and 
served same way as asparagus. Break the outside leaves 
carefully while still young. New tender leaves will rapidly 
be put forth and you can keep on harvesting all through the 
season. Thus Green Giant Chard is a cut and come again 
variety of high value. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; lb. 25c; lb. $1.00; 
10 lbs. $9.00, prepaid. 
BROCCOLI ST. VALENTINE 
Produces large, white, handsome heads, closely resemb¬ 
ling cauliflower in appearance—in fact, is being sold as cauli¬ 
flower in every grocery store during the winter months; the 
buying public not knowing the difference. A highly paying 
crop for any gardener located South or on the Pacific coast. 
Pkt. 10c; % oz. 15c; oz. 60c; lb. $6.00, prepaid. 
NINE STAR BROCCOLI taToTe"'^ no^ 
winter-kill, producing cauliflower-like heads in numbers. Try 
if located South. In Iowa it winter-kills. Pkt. 15c. More 
Broccoli on page 24. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
If you’ve never seen them growing, let us tell you the 
plant is erect, two feet or more in height and in addition to 
the rather broad, heavy leaves the stem produces miniature 
heads of cabbage, probably an inch or less in diameter. Fash¬ 
ionable hotels are generally good customers for this vege¬ 
table. 
The culture of Brussels Sprouts is the same as for cab¬ 
bage, except that the leaves should be pulled down in the 
fall to give the small heads more room to grow. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS—AMAGER MARKET 
A fine strain, quite early, with sprouts compactly set, 
yielding as high as five thousand quarts of beautiful sprouts 
per acre. Pkt. 10c; oz. 40c; lb. $2.80. 
IMPROVED EXTRA DWARF stems are thickly 
set with Sprouts which grow about one inch in diameter. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; *4 lb. 70c; lb. $2.80, prepaid. 
