ROYAL QUALITY SEEDS BEST BY EVERY TEST 
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Icicle Radishes 
EARLY LONG SCARLET, SHORT TOP — 
This is a standard, most excellent sort, either 
for the home garden or market. Tops short 
and comparatively small. Roots smooth, slen¬ 
der, uniform in shape and a very attractive 
bright red in color. It matures beautiful rad¬ 
ishes, which are always brittle and sweet, in 
25 days from the sowing of the seed. It is 
undoubtedly the standard long red variety 
that will withstand the hot dry weather and 
remain firm and crisp and of fine flavor. 
WHITE STRASBURG —A white radish, of 
large size, often growing 4 to 5 inches in 
severe heat. This variety keeps continuously 
crisp and tender for a long time. The home 
and market gardeners’ favorite summer rad¬ 
ish. Ready to use in about 45 days. 
FALL OR WINTER RADISHES 
WHITE CHINESE or CELESTIAL — An 
outstanding variety, growing to enormous 
size. The roots are cylindrical and grow 8 
to 10 inches long with a diameter of 4 inches. 
The flesh is crisp, juicy, and tender. Agree¬ 
ably mild in flavor. The roots are easily stored 
in boxes packed in sand and will keep all 
winter long. This is the most widely grown 
of all winter radishes. 
CHINA ROSE (Scarlet China) —Sown in 
the fall, the seed will produce 5-inch roots of 
deep rose-color which will keep well into the 
winter. The pure white flesh is very firm, 
compact, and pleasingly pungent. 
LONG BLACK SPANISH WINTER -- 
Grows 5 to 8 inches long, 1 to 1% inches 
through at top; skin black; flesh white and 
firm. 
ROUND BLACK SPANISH — Similar to 
Long Black Spanish, but is round in shape. 
RHUBARB or PIE PLANT 
CULTURE—Sow in drills 1 foot apart, 1 
inch deep. When a few inches high, thin a 
foot apart. In the fall prepare the ground for 
the final bed by deep trenching. Mix manure 
with the soil; the richer the soil and the deeper 
it is worked the better. Set the plants 3 feet 
apart eaclj way. The stalks should not be cut 
the first spring. One ounce will produce 1,000 
plants. 
VICTORIA—Is standard sort. 
SALSIFY 
(Vegetable Oyster) 
CULTURE —Sow the seed early in spring, 
in drills 12 inches apart and 1 inch deep, thin¬ 
ning out the young plants to 6 inches. The 
roots will be ready in October, when a supply 
should be taken up and stored. Those remain¬ 
ing will suffer no injury by being left in the 
ground until spring. One ounce will sow about 
50 feet of drill. 
MAMMOTH SANDWICH ISLAND— Ten¬ 
der and delicious. Superior to all other sorts. 
Bloomsdale Savoy Leaved 
SPINACH 
CULTURE — Spinach demands rich, light 
soil. Sow seed in early spring, 1 inch deep, 
in rows 12 inches apart, and make additional 
sowings every two weeks for a succession. 
For fall use, sow in August, and for a winter 
crop, in September. One ounce will sow about 
100 feet of rows; 10 to 12 pounds in drills to 
the acre. 
