Olds 

* 48. DETROIT DARK RED. (68 days.) Select 
Strain. The leading main crop variety for the home 
and market gardener. Globe shaped, sweet, tender, fine 
grained and free from woodiness. Dark crimson in 
eolor, Quality of the best. Leaves dark green, shaded 
to red. Probably the most widely grown beet for com- 
mercial canning. Our largest seller. Pkt., 10c; oz., 
25ce; % Ib., 65c; 1b., $2.00, postpaid. 

41. OLDS’ IMPROVED EARLY BLOOD 
TURNIP. (60 days.) A fine, bright red beet. Re- 
markably even in size and appearance. A flattened globe 
shape, good quality. Tops are large and coarse, which 
make it a fine variety for greens. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 20c; 
4, Ib., 50c; 1b., $1.50, postpaid. 
ce 
Sees 1 
* 51. CROSBY'S EGYPTIAN. (60 days.) A 
first-early market variety. Ilattened globular shape and 
of fine quality. One of the best for early but not 
recommended for winter storing. Roots dark red and 
flesh a trifle lighter with some zoning. Tops very small. 
PkKt., 10c; 0z., 20c; %%4 Ib., 55c; Ib., $1.75, postpaid. 
TREAT SEEDS AND BULBS WITH 
days.) 
suitable for forcing. 
globe shaped variety and red as a radish, 
It has a smooth skin and is solid and 
The leaf stalks 
making it 
Retains 
very sweet 
and taproots are quite small, 
valuable for sowing in frames. 
its fresh table qualities remarkably well. 
PKL. oe LOC 02,.8 20C t/a lp DOC sti, 
$1.75, postpaid. 

CULTURE: The best soil for beets 
is a deep sandy loam, For early beets 
plant as early in the spring as the 
ground can be worked, sowing a little 
later for the main crop. Winter beets 
should be planted about the 15th of 
June. Varieties marked »% are rec- 
ommended for freezing. 
Plant the seed about % inch deep 
and in rows one foot apart. Thin the 
plants to 8 inches. Each packet con- 
tains enough seed to sow 15 feet; one 
ounce, 60 feet; five pounds an acre, 
drilled. 
MANGELS, SUGAR BEETS AND 
OTHER ROOT CROPS—SEE PAGE 
56. 
ORDER SEEDS EARLY. 
are very short. 
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402. 
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in flavor. 

Perfected Detroit. 
SEMESAN 
DISEASE CONTROL—BETTER STANDS—STURDIER PLANTS WITH SEMESAN 
Don’t trust to luck for success with vegetables, 
conditions. Treat your seeds, corms, 
with water, Semesan reduces seed rotting 
diseases, 
1-Ib. size, $2.50; 5-lb. 
flowers and bulbs. 
bulbs, and seedlings with Semesan. 
and damping-off, 
me y tee 

EARLIEST FORCING. (50 
Earliest of all beets; 
A turnip-rooted or 
Do what you ean to control 
Used as a dust or in solution 
is highly effective against many seed-borne 
even prevents contamination of the soil by certain seed-borne diseases. 
15 to 30 pounds of seed at a cost of “4c to le a pound of seed. Prices: 
One ounce treats 
; c ‘ Y_ oz. pKt., 10c; 2 oz. size, 40c; 
size, $11.40, postpaid. Prices subject to change. 
Garden Beets siczniz. 

Good For All Beets. 
45. GOOD FOR ALL. (52 days.) A new 
early beet developed from Detroit Dark Red. 
Especially fine for pickling and canning whole 
as they grow about one and one- fourth to one 
and one-half inches in diameter. Roots are 
smooth, even in size, and very uniformly globu- 
lar in shape. Interior deep crimson and free of 
white zoning. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 20c; % Ib., 50c; 
Ib., $1.50, postpaid. 
BEETS IN SUCCESSION 
Do not depend on one planting for a sup- 
ply all through the summer 
and fall. The 
sweetest and most delicious of all are the 
small beets—just big enough to use. Have 
more coming on all the time. 
40. EXTRA EARLY EGYPTIAN. (55 
days.) A forcing and first early variety. One 
of the very earliest of all beets. Has a very 

small top. Roots very dark red, rounded on 
top, flat beneath. Flesh dark, purplish red. 
Pkt., 10c; 0z., 20c; % lb., 50c; Ib., $1.50, post- 
paid, . 
52. CRIMSON 
GLOBE. (70 days.) 
A fine second early or 
Main-crop table or mar- 
ket variety. Globe shap- 
ed, medium in size and 
slightly zoned. A rich 
blood red in color, sweet, 
tender and never strin- 
gy. Foliage small and 
dark. PEt... LO0cs oz: 
2OC w/e Dae ODCEuR ELD 
$1.75, postpaid, 
4/25/41 
“The Jumbo Sweet 
Peas I bought of you last 
year were the most beau- 
tiful I ever saw and they 
were in bloom all sum- 
mer. 
ee la a Early Wonder, 
43. EARLY WONDER. (56 days.) A 
selection from Crosby’s Egyptian. Very uniform, 
dark red, globe shaped, small top. Especially 
good for late planting although in the extra 
early class. Early, hardy, productive and hand- 

some. Pkt., 10c;' oz., -20c; : 14° Ub., 5esntb. 
$1.75, postpaid. 
42. PERFECTED DETROIT. (65 days.) 
A new strain of Detroit Dark Red Beet. The 
result of several generations of inbreeding. It 
is unquestionably the darkest red and most uni- 
form type stock of Detroit Beet ever offered. 
Slightly earlier than the regular variety. Will 
run 99 per cent extremely dark red without 
visible zone markings. Perfected Detroit is the 
finest beet for the market gardener or for can- 
ning. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 25c; %4 lb., 65c; Ib., $2.00, 
postpaid. 

