SEED GROWERS 
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BEET FOR THE TABLE — Continued 
EGYPTIAN, EARLY FLAT 48 Days 
Large, upright, dark red leaves with green tint. Roots a very deep, dark 
red, flat, thick, sometimes inclined to be rough and irregularly shaped 
Usually clean and free of fiber roots. A small tan root. Cut flesh shows a 
very deep dark color with very faint zoning of slightly lighter red. 
GOOD FOR ALL 55 Days 
An excellent variety developed from Detroit Dark Red. Especially fine for 
canning and pickling whole at VA to \V 2 inches in diameter. Roots 
smooth, even in size and shape and almost globular; collar and tap roots 
very small; interior deep crimson, free from white zones. 
LONG SMOOTH DARK BLOOD 78 Days 
The standard long, late sort. Roots 8 to 10 inches long, very dark, blood- 
red flesh; quality fine. 
iiUTZ GREEN LEAF 75 Days 
A medium late variety for home use. Tops small, glossy green, with pink 
mid-rib. Roots half long, top-shaped; dark, purplish red. Flesh deep blood 
red with indistinct zones. Good quality and an excellent keeper. 
OHIO CANNER 55 Days 
A beet specifically adapted for commercial canning. It is slow in habit of 
growth, has an extremely small top. At the canning size of 1 inch to l l / 2 
inches this beet is round and tender, extremely dark red in color; when 
canned remains red. 
PERFECTED DETROIT 55 Days 
A mid-season variety. Tops tall, green and red. Roots globular, medium 
smooth, deep red; flesh dark red with somewhat lighter zones; of good 
quality. Adapted to the uses of market gardeners and canncrs. 
SWISS CHARD, LUCULLUS 55 Days 
An improved type of Chard. Of more upright growth than the Silver 
variety; leaves yellowish green, much crumpled and curled, mid-rib and 
veins white, stalks thick, broad and flat and as large as rhubarb. 
SWISS CHARD, SILVER 55 Days 
Light green, blunt spear head leaf on a short stem, slightly lighter stem 
and vein. Makes a thick, heavy growth for cut-and come-again greens. 
Grows 18 to 20 inches tall. Leaves usually quite smooth; sometimes 
slightly savoyed. 
SWISS CHARD, FORDHOOK GIANT OR 
DARK GREEN WHITE RIB 55 Days 
Very broad, thick, heavy, short white stem and a large, broad, thick, very 
much crumpled and savoyed spear shaped leaf, growing to 26 and 28 inches 
tall. Leaves very glossy and waxy looking: upright growth. Best of 
all the chards; leaves make the most tender of greens and the broad white 
stems used as asparagus are excellent. 
BEET—SUGAR 
In growing, the sugar beet is treated like the mangel except that only 
six or eight inches of space is given each beet in the row. 
KLEIN WANZLEBEN — For Sugar 90 Days 
The variety most used for sugar manufacture on account of high sugar 
content; is also good for stock feeding. Roots long with thick shoulder, 
tapered; skin grey-white, flesh solid white. 
