
Bloomsdale Long Standing E 
pinach 
An ounce will sow 100 ft.; 8-10 lbs. per acre in drills. If broadcast sow 12-16 lbs. per acre. The ground should 
be rich and seed should be planted to a depth of $ inch except New Zealand, which should be 1 inch. The fast 
bolting types may be sown very early in the spring or from Aug. 15 until frost. 
The slow bolting types may be 
planted when it is impractical to sow the early types. 
Bloomsdale Blight Resistant (Virginia Savoy) 
—45 Days. Developed by the Virginia Truck 
Experimental Station, Norfolk, Virginia, after 
many years of careful breeding. It is of the Blooms- 
dale type. Resistant to mosaic diseases, yellows 
or blight. It is not adapted to Spring planting 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 
Savoy)—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 
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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 (Giant Thick Leaved)—50 Days. 
An erect, strong growing, long standing sort of the 
Flanders type. Leaves large, unusually 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 growing, spreading in habit, inclined to grow flat 
on the ground, leaves large, long, broad. 
GD Yencuth Seed Ce, 
