Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach 

SPINACH 
Spinach was first cultivated in Western Asia. 
Introduced into China before the eighth century. 
In China it is called Putsai, meaning a vegetable from Persia. Theseed was originally all prickly. 
Four ounces of seed will sow 100 yards of row. 
pounds to the acre broadcast. 
Ten pounds per acre when in rows. 
Seed breaks ground in 8 days. One inch high in 12 days under 
Twenty-five 
most favorable circumstances in greenhouse 
Blight Resistant or Virginia Blight Resistant 
Savoy—45 Days. Developed by the Virginia 
Truck Experimental Station, Norfolk, Virginia, 
after many years of careful breeding. It is of the 
Bloomsdale type. Resistant to mosaic diseases, 
yellows or blight. It is not adapted to Spring plant- 
ing as it shoots to seed quickly at that time. 
BLOOMSDALE LONG STANDING—45 Days. 
Remains about 8 to 14 days longer in table condition 
than the main crop, Bloomsdale Reselected, is larger 
and about 5 days later. Remarkable in the almost 
total absence of male plants. This selection pos- 
sesses all the good qualities of the famous Blooms- 
dale Reselected, from which it is a plant selection 
made in Holland, the habit of remaining longer in 
shipping condition after Bloomsdale shoots to Seed, 
which marks it as a very valuable type. 
BLOOMSDALE RESELECTED DARK GREEN 
—40 Days. Sometimes called Norfolk Savoy. The 
Landreths introduced and named this general type 
in 1826. Since then it has become a standard and 
now appears in all catalogs in the United States and 
is equally well known in Europe. No Spinach is so 
well known as this variety and we are perfectly safe 
in saying that five times as much of this is sold and 
planted in the United States, as any other variety. 
The leaves are twisted, blistered or savoyed, and a 
glossy dark green, giving them an elasticity adapting 
them for transportion over long distances. This 
Seed may be sown in the Autumn or as early in the 
Spring as the condition of the ground will permit. 
Spinach, when planted south of New York City, 
stands out all Winter and during the various open 
spells throughout the Winter can be cut and sent to 
market as a green vegetable; very valuable in this 
respect. 
Giant Nobel or Gaudry—50 Days. ‘‘All-America”’ 
Silver Medal 1933. An erect, strong growing, long 
standing sort of the Flanders type. Leaves large, 
unusally broad, firm, and thick. Arrow shaped 
with a rounded top. Light green to yellowish green 
in color, smooth and the largest of any Spinach. 
The most desirable of all the Long Standing types 
for those who do not favor a savoy leaf. Slow to 
shoot or bolt to seed. 
King of Denmark—50 Days. An intermediate, 
long-standing, heat resistant variety, hardy, vigor- 
ous grower, spreading in habit, inclined to grow flat 
on the ground, leaves large, long, broad. 
See Opposite Page for Landreths’ SALSIFY and SORREL 
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D. LANDRETH 
