VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES 
KEYSTONE SEEDS 
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SPINACH—Continued 
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HOLLANDIA or Prickly Winter (Prickly Seeded) SCARF 
A rather long-standing variety that is a valuable over-wintering type and used by can- 
ners. The Hollandia strain is similar but more desirable and considerably improved 
over the old prickly winter type. 
PLANTS—Medium large, hardy, vigorous, rapid grower, rather open in habit. 
LEAVES—Large, broad, tapered arrow shape, smooth, thick, firm, and bright medium 
green in color, of good quality. 
VIKING (Round Seeded) SPANG 
A recent introduction rapidly growing in popularity with canners and market gardeners. 
Similar to "Heavy Pack" strain, an unusually heavy productive sort. 
PLANTS—Hardy, vigorous grower, compact, somewhat upright. General type and 
large appearance between King of Denmark and Giant Nobel. 
LEAVES—Very large, broad arrow shaped with rounded tip, firm, tender, juicy, 
semi-savoyed, rich dark green, of excellent quality. 
VIRGINIA SAVOY or Bloomsdale Blight Resistant (Round Seeded) SAVER 
Developed by the Virginia Truck Experiment Station for blight (mosaic) resistance. 
Very valuable for fall planting when blight is most severe and being the fastest 
growing curled type it is up and matures a crop in the fall where other varieties fail. 
Resembles Bloomsdale Savoy but in spring bolts to seeders quickly and must be har¬ 
vested when first ready. 
PLANTS—Exceptionally rapid grower, and very thrifty. 
LEAVES—Similar to Bloomsdale but not quite so intensely curled. 
VIROFLAY or Monstrous Viroflay (Round Seeded) SAGAS 
A very suitable, large type, medium early, smooth-leaved spinach for canners. This 
variety cannot be classed with the long-standing sorts, but holds up well for canners' 
purposes. 
PLANTS—Very large, hardy, vigorous, moderately upright growth. 
LEAVES—Very large, broad, rounded arrow shape, fairly smooth, with slight crumpling, 
bright green, of good quality. 
Season. 
Days 
Sowing 
to 
Cutting 
45 
45 
35 
45 
SQUASH 
Cucurbita pepo 
Our strains of squash are maintained to their true characteristics by a continual program of 
pure lining and increasing these pure lines in isolated plots to quantities large enough to produce 
our seed fields. For this reason our stocks are second to none and outstanding for their uniformity. 
EARLY SUMMER CROOKNECK, YELLOW—A most popular squash. 
