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ROBSON SEED FARMS ^ HALL, N. Y. 
It takes two years to produce beet seed. The first year we grow a crop of beets like the ones Gladys is looking at—selected “Mother 
beets.” These are stored over winter and set out early in the Spring. A seed stalk then comes up; blossoms appear and your beet seed is 
produced. 
TABLE BEETS 
1 oz. will sow 100 ft. row 
8 to 10 lbs. will sow 1 acre 
DETROIT DARK RED: 68 days. The outstanding 
variety for produce shippers and canners, also used 
for bunching. Roots are globular or nearly round, 
very dark, interior color blood red. Unless growing 
conditions are abnormal, the zones are so inconspicu¬ 
ous that the beets seem to be one solid color. 
Our stock has been outstanding for several years in 
field trials at the New York State Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. Many growers, producing large aereages of 
canning factory beets, find our Detroit Dark Red 
meet the requirements of the more discriminating 
canners better than other strains. The quality, tex¬ 
ture and color are uniformly good throughout the 
crop. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 12 cts.; lb. 30 cts.; lb. 
95 cts.; 10 lbs. $9.00; 100 lbs. $80.00. 
CROSBY: 60 days. We have been listing both Crosby 
Egyptian and Early Wonder. These two varieties, 
we believe, came from the same stock. Good stocks 
of these are so nearly identical that we are dropping 
the Early Wonder and spending all of our effort in 
breeding a more uniform Crosby. Our ideal is a 
flattened globe shaped beet with a small tap root. 
Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; ]4 lb. 30 cts.; lb. 95 cts.; 
10 lbs. $9.00. 
MANGEL BEETS. See page 14 
BROCCOLI 
1 oz. will produce 2000 plants 
Seed hot water treated 
ITALIAN GREEN SPROUTING (Calabrese): 60 
days. A plant resembling cauliflower. Heads are 
smaller but many on each plant. It is green in 
color and is cooked like cauliflower. Broccoli is 
becoming more popular each year. If started in hot 
bed April first, will be ready for use the first week in 
July. By successive plantings a supply can be had 
from July until hard freezing weather. Culture the 
same as for cabbage. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 45 cts.; 
X lb. $1.35; lb. $4.75. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
1 oz. will produce 2000 plants 
Seed hot water treated 
LONG ISLAND IMPROVED DWARF: 95 days We 
have found this strain very desirable in that it will 
produce sprouts under less favorable conditions than 
other varieties. The plants are of dwarf habit but 
furnish a large yield of sprouts of excellent quality. 
Light freezes seem to improve the quality. Brussels 
Sprouts should be given the same culture as late cab¬ 
bage. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 40 cts.; )4 Ih. $1.20; lb. 
$4.30. 
138 years ago this coming Suinmer, our great grandfather came from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and purchased a tract of virgin 
forest east of what is now the village of Hall. The old Homestead is still in the Robson family. This was the original farm upon which our 
present seed business was founded. 
25 lbs. or more of beet seed may be ordered at the 100 lb. price. 
