50 Vegetable Seeds 
Beets 
GROW YOUR OWN BEETS —Root crops give 
more food value for the space occupied than any 
other vegetable. Beets are the most popular of all 
root crops. Beets may be stored for winter use. Best 
of all, the small beets pulled and used soon after, are 
much sweeter and more tender than any you could 
buy. Try some buttered tender baby beets from your 
own garden this year. Make at least two plantings 
of beets so that you have plenty for early use and 
for winter storage as well. 
3576 Detroit Dark Red Su,„™h,SX 
Detroit makes a beautiful appearance served on the 
table or bunched for market, as it retains its deep 
red color. A big cropper with small upright tops, 
permitting close planting. The roots are globe shaped, 
see picture at left. Skin and flesh dark, blood red 
with very little lighter zoning. An excellent winter 
keeper. Pkt. 8c; oz. 20c; 54 lb. SOc. 
TABLE BEETS CULTURE. Beets like well en¬ 
riched moist soil. Sow the seed 1 inch deep in rows 
12 to 16 inches apart, and thin out to stand 4 inches 
apart. First sowing may be made as early as the soil 
is in good workable condition, later plantings up 
to July 1st. 
QUANTITY OF SEED. One ounce should sow a 
60 to 75 foot row, 5 to 6 pounds an acre. Packets 
of the standard varieties will contain about 54 ounce. 
3581 C A beet tbat bas been 
\_/nlO manner especially developed to 
meet the exacting demands of the canner and which 
therefore makes an unusually fine home garden 
variety. Roots very round and uniform and with 
small tops. Flesh is tender and extremely dark red, 
retaining its color after canning. Slower in growth 
than Detroit so gives a long period of use in the home 
garden. Pkt. 8c; oz. 2©c; J4 lb. 5©c. All 
American 1933. 
Golden 
Cluster 
Wax 
Bean 
Detroit 
Dark 
Red 
3571 Ear 
it produces 
Early 
Wonder— 
Best 
Early 
Beet 
3578 Perfected Detroit 
All American 1931. 
An improved strain with which we are 
coming close to perfection in uniformity 
of size and shape of roots and extreme 
depth of color. Pkt. lOc; oz. 25c; 
54 lb. 60c. 
I W/ J A fine beet for extra early 
ly W onaer or very late planting as 
edible roots quickly. Slightly more round¬ 
ed than Cros¬ 
by's Egyptian. 
Color of flesh is 
deep red, zoned 
with lighter red. 
Pkt. 8c; oz. 
20c; 54>b. 5©c. 
3579 Extra Early Egyptian very earliest. 
especially valuable for forcing for early market. Tops 
small, roots distinctly flat and moderately thick. 
Flesh dark red with lighter zones. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; 
54 lb. lOc; ib. $1.00. 
3580 Edmand’s Blood Turnip ££{? 
round, dark red. Flesh purplish-red with very little 
zoning. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; 54 lb. 40c. 
3573 Crosby’s Egyptian ^ain np of°oid 
Egyptian and now the standard for early market. The 
roots are flattened globe shaped (see picture below). 
Skin deep red, flesh slightly zoned. This strain of 
Crosby’s Egyptian is suitable for the most critical 
market gardeners planting. Much extra work has been 
done on this to perfect uniformity in shape and color 
of roots. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; 54 Ib.lOc. 
Mangel Beets 
(or Poultry and Stock 
QUANTITY OF SEED. One ounce 
should sow a 75 to 100 ft. row. 5 
to 6 pounds an acre. 
Broccoli, Hardy Cauliflower 
3601 Lar S e White Broccoli 
ier and less particular of conditions. Produces large white compact 
heads, tender and of delicate cauliflower flavor. Grow like Cauliflower. 
Pkt. lOc; oz. 5©c; 54 lb. $1.50. 
3602 Italian Green 
_ A distinct variety 
oprouting and a vegetable 
that has become very popular. 
Served as Asparagus it- is very 
tasty, some considering it better 
than Cauliflower, yet it iseasierto 
grow than Cauliflower. Grows 
quickly producing a cauliflower¬ 
like bluish green head in about 90 
days. After the head is removed the plant pro¬ 
duces branches bearing smaller terminal heads, 
which may also be used. Pkt. 5c; oz. 
4©c; 54 lb. $1.25. 
Crosby’s 
Egyptian 
Italian Green Broccoli 
Brussels Sprouts 
3586 Mammoth Long 3612 Long Island Improved 
Sludstrup 
p J The heaviest yielding of all 
l\eQ mangels, often 254 ft. long 
and very heavy. Grows half out 
of ground, easy to harvest. Oz. 
8c; 54 lb. 2©c; lb. 6©c. 
3589 Danish Sludstrup 
Produces large oval orange colored 
roots than grow more than half 
above ground. Flesh white tinged 
yellow and of extremely high 
sugar content. An unusually valu¬ 
able dairy beet. Oz. lOc; 54 Ib. 
25c; Ib. .©5c. 
3588 Gi an t Half Sugar 
The richest of all mangels in 
sugar content and feeding value. 
Ready to _ harvest earlier than 
others. Skin rose colored; flesh 
white. Oz. 10c; 54 lb. 25c; lb. 
©5c. 
Small heads of delicious quality are abundantly pro¬ 
duced along the stem, the plants growing about 2 ft. 
high. Cultivate same as late cabbage. Produces tender 
little heads from October to December. Pkt. 8c; 
oz. 25c; 54 lb. 75c; lb. $2.00. 
Brussels Sprouts 
Swiss Chard 
or Spinach Beef 
No other vegetable will produce more nutritious greens 
from a small space than 
Swiss Chard. It grows 
rapidly forming large 
leaves with broad flesh 
stems and mid-ribs. Sow 
the seed in April or May 
and thin the plants out to 
stand V/i ft. apart. 
3596 L u c u I I US 
Has very large heavily 
crumpled, thick leaves 
and creamy white stalks. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; 54 lb. 
35c. 
3597 Large White 
D-LL „ J Dark Green. 
mooed Has enor¬ 
mous leaves not quite as 
crumpled asLucullus and 
pearly white stalks ex¬ 
tremely thick and broad. 
Pkt. 8c; oz. 2©c; 54 Ib. 
45c. Swiss Chard 
Pole or Cornhill Beans 
CULTURE—Same as bush lima beans except that they must be 
provided with something to climb upon. If planted in hills,poles 
will answer the purpose, or if planted in rows a continuous wire 
or heavy twine trellis is good. Pole Beans yield many more pods 
per plant than dwarf varieties. One pound will plant 100 hills. 
3557 ,,L„ \U or old Homestead. The 
3 Kentucky Wonder most satisfactory of all the 
green podded Pole Beans. Early, wonderfully prolific, bearing 
continually until frost. Long pods in clusters. May be planted 
with corn. Pkt. 5c; 54 Ib. l2c; lb. 35c; 3 lbs. 9©c. 
3563 Kentucky Wonder Wax most 6 
tive of the wax Pole Beans. Pods 754 to 8 inches long, thick, fleshy 
and brittle. Light yellow, seed chocolate brown. Pkt. 5c; 54 Ib. 
15c; lb. 40c; 3 lbs. $1.00. 
3558 Golden Cluster Wax Lt*r± w “™! 
inches long, golden yellow, thick, fleshy and stringless. White 
seeded. Pkt.5c; 54 Ib. 15c; Ib. 40c; 3 lbs. $1.00. 
35591 # \Y/"£ Popular for snaps, shell beans or for beans 
Lazy W ire for winter use. The pods are borne in 
clusters, long, broad, thick, fleshy, green pods, white seed. Pkt. 5c; 
54 Ib. 12c; Ib. 35c; 3 lbs. OOc. 
3561 Cranberry Wren ’ s E Sg- Used for 
Horticultural shell beans, either green or dry. 
Dry seed speckled. Pkt. 5c; 54 lb. 12c; lb. 35c; 3 lbs. 90c. 
3562 Y ar J I Asparagus Bean. An interesting 
/ alO LOng novelty from the old country. Long, 
slim, round pods, often 2 to 3 feet long. The pods are edible. 
Pkt. lOc. 
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