Half Long Blood, Bastian Half Long or Phila. 
Perfection—70 Days. Fine color outside. Ex- 
cellent color when cut. Tops purple and green in 
about equal proportion. Very desirable for a late 
beet and one of the best producing. 
LANDRETHS’ BEST—50 Days. About 5 days 
earlier than Detroit, more ball-shaped, altogether a 
superior sort. Slimmer tap roots, more mouse- 
tailed. Roots vary from deep globe to round. 
Flesh deep red, with indistinct zoning, of excellent 
sugary quality. Skin smooth, free from fibers. Tops 
small. All gardeners will find this beet of fully 
double the usual value if they are pulled and served 
on the table when so small as to be no larger than a 
silver half dollar. | Landreths’ 
Best is very choice for early use, i 
having an intensely red color, 
delicate texture. 
LANDRETHS’ EARLY 
BLOOD RED TURNIP 
ROOTED—55 Days. Top- 
shaped, early in maturity and 
one of our best sellers. Very 
desirable in every respect. Skin 
deep red and very smooth. 
When cut it is one of the best 
red Turnip Beets on the market. 
Long Blood Red—80 Days. 
Resists drought better than any 
other variety of Beet. Color, 
deep red; flesh, very sweet; 
roots long, slim with a_ big 
shoulder, one third out of the 
ground. 
Ohio Canner—55 Days. Silver 
Medal ‘‘All-America”’ 1933. In 
shape more like Crosby Egyptian 
than Detroit. Inside very ex- 
cellent dark color, practically 
free from light zones. A splendid 
variety likely to supersede other 
strains. 

Detroit Dark Red Beet 
New Century, Lutz Green Leaf or Long Season 
—70 Days. Tops small, glossy green with pink 
mid-ribs; roots dark purplish red, half long top 
shape; flesh blood red with indistinct zone. Is a 
late variety for home use. 
Mangel Wurzels for Cattle 
Golden Tankard—100 Days. A rapidly maturing 
root adapted to shallow lands, although doing well 
on every soil. The root has broad shoulders partly 
above ground, rich golden skin, solid sugary flesh 
afte golden footstalk. The flesh is yellow zoned with 
white. 
Mammoth Long Red—110 
Days. Everywhere the most 
popular variety for cattle feeding. 
Roots grow half above ground, 
large, long, well formed, usually 
straight, flesh-white tinged with 
rose. We cannot recommend 
this beet too highly. 
Sugar Beets 
Giant Feeding Half Rose 
Sugar—90 Days. This beet is 
extremely desirable for cattle—of 
high nutritive value. The flesh 
is white, and very sugary. 
Klein-Wanzleben—90_ Days. 
‘Beet sugar manufacturers have 
united in recommending this as 
possessing the highest sugar 
producing qualities. 
Swiss Chard 
In previous catalogues, Swiss 
Chard was listed under the 
heading of Beets. It is now 
under its own heading on page 
42 of this 1942 edition. 
Broccoli 
One ounce of seed will sow 100 yards of row. Seed breaks ground in about 4 days. 
One inch high 
in 7 days under most favorable circumstances in greenhouse. A plant much resembling Cauliflower, 
and like it derived from the wild Cabbage. 
Early Green Calabrese or Italian—65 Days. 
This is a so-called new vegetable introduced into the 
United States in the last few years, but has been 
well known in Italy for generations. The Italian 
population in the United States has taken to it 
very freely, as have all users of vegetables. It 
should be sown very early in the Spring and mar- 
keted in July and August. 
St. Valentine—150 Days. Large white head re- 
sembling Cauliflower. We offer an especially fine 
strain of Karly White Broccoli, and strongly recom- 
mend its more general culture. 
Brussels Sprouts 
One ounce of seed will sow 100 yards of row. Seed breaks ground in about 4 days. One inch 
high in 7 days under most favorable circumstances in greenhouse. 
A variety of the Cabbage 
family, possessing the peculiarity of bearing upon its stem or stalk buds resembling miniature 
Cabbage heads. 
The leaves composing these heads resemble Savoy Cabbage. The heads or 
buds, from 1 to 2 inches in diameter, form one of the most delicious garden vegetables, equaled 
only by the Cauliflower. 
Long Island Improved—90 Days. A leading 
variety of one of the most popular Winter vegetables. 
Choice tall stalks, 50 to 100 large buds, 1 to 2 inches 
LV Gercuth Seed Ce. 
in diameter. 
hastened and enlarged by cutting away ten or more 
leaves from the stalk when three-quarters grown. 
The development of the buds can be 
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