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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. 
In our section beets can be sown up to August 1st. 
EARLY BEETS—About 15th of February broadcast *4 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. You will get 
a crop of beets days ahead of field sown beets. 
CRIMSON GLOBE (68 days)—Flesh blood red, slightly zoned. 
ELECTRIC (68 days)—Round, deep red with rings of lighter 
hue. 
HALF LONG BLOOD RED (70 days)—Heavy smooth roots, 
very dark red. Price: Any of the above, pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 
lb. 60c. 
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 
flattish. For a market with large foreign population, try Select Long 
Smooth Blood. 
NEW BEET IOWA (56 days) 
VERY EARLY—HEAVILY PRODUCTIVE 
Superior in shape and color, with the extra advantage 
that its foliage is light, yet ample, to make it easy to tie. 
Globe-shaped, smooth and much darker in color than most 
globe-shaped beets, both in and out. Medium in size, never 
cracks open and never grows to immense proportions like 
other beets. The flesh is rich, deep, brilliant, scarlet-red 
without light zones, sweet and tender. Every plant of Iowa 
makes a shapely and salable root, even if the plantation is 
left unthinned and the plants allowed to crowd one another. 
Iowa is an all purpose beet, but especially valuable for grow¬ 
ing on a large scale for canneries or the wholesale trade. 
BEET IOWA is uniform in inside color being a VERY dark crimson 
without any purple or brown shade, not even when it is boiled. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; % lb. 23c; lb. 90c; 10 lbs. $7.50. 
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 GREEN GIANT (55 days) 
Leaves much darker green than those of any other variety, 
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. 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. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; % lb. 20c: lb. 80c; 10 lbs. $0.00. prepaid. 
SWISS CHARD LUCULLUS (50 days) 
Leaves heavily crumpled, very large, stalks white, thick and ten¬ 
der, well flavored. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; lb. 80c; 10 lbs. $5.00, prepaid. 
SWISS CHARD SILVER GIANT (50 days) 
Leaves smooth, dark green, the stems silvery-white, fleshy, broad, 
tender and fine flavored. Pkt. 6c; oz. 10c; *4 lb. 20c; lb. 80c. 
An Ohio customer writes: Iowa beet beats any variety I 
ever planted. 
