SELECT VEGETABLE SEEDS 11 
Beets—Continued 
Half Long Blood. Late variety and finest quality for winter 
use; smooth skin; flesh dark red, sweet and exceptionally ten- 
der. Per oz., 20c.; %-lb., 65c.; lb., $2.00. 
Swiss Chard or Spinach Beet 
_ Cultivated for its leaves. The mid-rib is boiled and served 
like asparagus, and the other portions of the leaves are used 
as spinach. When wanted, cut close down to the ground 
without injury to the crown, and new leaves will grow continu- 
ously from early summer until frost. 
Dark Green Broad White Ribbed. The rib and stem are very 
wide, pearly white and tender. A great improvement over the 
old sort. Large dark green, moderately curled leaf. Per pkt., 
10c.; 0z., 20c.; %4-lb., 65c.; 1b., $2.00. 
Swiss Chard or Silver. This is the old standard, smooth- 
leaved variety. Per pkt., 10c.; 0z., 20c.; %4-Ib., Oder lbeapz2.U08 
Beets—Mangel Wurtzel 
(For Feeding Stock) 
Mammoth Long Red. Grows to an enormous size, producing 
Swiss Chard Dark Green 30 to 40 tons per acre of valuable food for stock; roots grow 
White Ribbed well above ground, therefore easy to harvest. Per oz., 20c.; 
Y-lb., 50c.; Ib., $1.50. 
Giant Sludstrup. An orange yellow sort, ovoid in shape, not the largest in 
bulk yield, but excels in amount of dry matter per acre yield. Per oz., 20c.; 
Y%-lb., 50c.; Ib., $1.50. 
ea Tankard. Half long, nearly uniform diameter from top to bottom. 
‘ailed. 

Sugar Beets 
Lan’s Imperial Sugar. (White French). A white-fleshed, very productive. 
variety for stock feeding; skin below ground rose-colored, above ground gray. 
Per oz., 20c.; %4-lb., 50c.; Ib., $1.50. 
Klein Wauzleben Sugar. Extensively used for stock feeding because of its 
high food and sugar content. Roots long and tapered with a thick shoulder. 
Flesh, white, skin, gray-white. Per 0z., 20c.; %4-lb., 50c.; Ib., $1.50. 
Broccoli 
Spargel Kohl—Broculi—Broccoli 
Broccoli White Cape is closely allied to Cauliflower, requiring a long season, 
succeeding where climate permits the plants to stand out over winter and make 
heads in spring, which will be one year from sowing seed. Sow thinly in seed 
beds about the middle of spring, transplant and cultivate according to direc- 
— tions for winter cabbage. 
Farly Green Calabrese. Entirely distinct 
from the above sort. Cultivated for its green 
bud clusters and tender terminal leaves. The 
main stalk cluster when cut encourages many 
side sprouts with smaller clusters. Per pkt., 
10c.; oz., 55c.; %4-lb., $1.80; Ib., $6.00. 
Broccoli Rab Annual (Italian Turnip 
Greens). Produces very quickly, strap leaved 
tops and tender bud clusters; sow in March 
for May cutting or in September for Fall crop. 
Pkt., 10c.; 0z., 20c.; %4-Ib., 50c.; lb., $1.60. 
Broccoli Rab Biennial. Similar to above ex- 
cept hardy and has a longer root. Sow in Sep- Mammoth Long 
tember for Spring cutting. Pkt., 10cHF .0z:, Red Mangel 
20c.; %4-lb., 50c.; Ib., $1.60. 
Brussels Sprouts 
Rosenkohl—Berza de Brussels—Brocoli di Cavolo 
The plants grow two or three feet high and produce, from the sides of the stalk, numerous little 
sprouts one or two inches in diameter, resembling cabbages. The leaves look like the Savoy, and 
should be broken down in the fall, to give the little cabbages more room to grow. 
Long Island Improved. Special stock. Dwarf, compact, producing large sprouts. Per pkt., 20c.; 
oz., $2.50. 



Broccoli Calabrese 
