REED BROS. IMPROVED DANISH 
No. 22 
NEW SEED—HOT WATER TREATED—NORTHERN GROWN 
After 11 years of painstaking work we have isolated out of our good old strain a greatly im¬ 
proved Danish which so far has proven immune to leaf blight (tip burn). 
\\ e feel that no greater advancement has taken place in cabbage breeding since the eradica¬ 
tion of black leg and black rot than the development of this variety which is so highly leaf blight 
resisting. 
Description and Habit of Growth 
It has a short stem with a very 
solid deep head. In a great number 
of strain tests scattered from Maine 
to Florida it has outyielded every 
one from 3 to 10 tons per acre. It 
even outyields our good old strain 
several tons per acre. 
It is an extremely sure header 
and free grower. Plants should be 
set fairly thick unless large heads are 
desired. Thick setting with a sure 
heading type always gives tonnage. 
Bursting 
For several years we have set 
some of this cabbage as early as the 
10th of June and let it stand until the 
first of November without its burst¬ 
ing or taking leaf blight. These trials 
were conducted on sod ground which 
grows cabbage much more susceptible to bursting and leaf blight than stubble, 
ground most always produces greener cabbage for storage. 
Good and faulty wrapper leaves are illustrated here. We believe 
we have entirely eliminated the type at the right from our strain. 
However stubble 
Yield and Quality 
There seems to be almost no limit to its yield under favorable conditions. In Florida it cut 
over 26 tons per acre. It has yielded over 25 tons per acre with us the past two years. 
No better keeper can be found. Trimming, when taken from storage is reduced to a minimum 
owing to the unusual overlapping of the leaves forming the head. It may be set earlier than 
many strains and yet produce good green heads owing to its freedom from leaf blight. To say 
the least it surpasses any thing we have ever seen in Danish cabbage. Don’t fail to try it. 
It took first prize at our New York State Fair last fall. 
Price 
Om lb. $8.00; \ lb. $4.00; \ lb. $2.25; oz. 70c. Postpaid. 
We booForders and send seed postpaid C. O. D. any date you wish. 
As they grow in the field. 
Outer leaver stripped off to 
show shape of heads and 
overlapping of head leaves 
Note how even they are. 
No small ones and none 
cracked. Yield over 25 tons 
per acre. 
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