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Mary Washington Asparagus 






















You will find our Detroit 
Dark Red Beets are very 
smooth and uniform in shape 
and size. The flesh will be 
dark rich red in color, with- 
out light rings and will be 
unusually well flavored and 
tender 

Vick's Vegetable Seeds 
Are Tested for Germination by a Famous Agricultural Experiment Station 
and the Results of This Test Appear on Every Package of Vegetable Seeds | 
We Send Out. You Get the Same High Quality Seed in These Garden-Size 
Packages as We Furnish to the Commercial Vegetable Grower and Florist, 
Whose Living Depends on the Quality of Seed He Sows. 
ASPARAGUS 
A leaflet on “The Planting and Care of 
Asparagus” sent with every order. 
One ounce of seed will produce 800 
plants; 5 Ibs. will sow an acre. 
The popularity of Asparagus in the home 
garden is growing rapidly, as people learn how 
easily it may be raised, and how much better 
the flavor is when cooked immediately after 
cutting. Asparagus begins to lose flavor 20 
minutes after being taken from the ground. A 
small bed 12 feet wide and 25 feet long will 
hold 100 plants and yield sufficient Asparagus 
for the family of ordinary size. Soak the seed 
in warm water for twenty-four hours, then sow 
an inch deep in rows a foot apart. The follow- 
ing spring set the best of the plants in the 
permanent bed. 
THE BEST IN 
One pkg. of seeds planted 2 inches 
apart, will make a row about 20 feet 
long; one ounce a row 200 feet long. 
The best results are obtained on a deep, rich 
sandy loam. Sow seed 1 inch deep, in drills 16 
inches apart, as early as possible. If wanted 
very early, sow in hotbeds and transplant to 
open ground. Thin to stand 3 to 4 inches apart. 
Cultivate cleanly and thoroughly. For succes- 
sion, sow at intervals until middle of July. 
If you like greens, especially “Beet Greens,”’ 
sow the seed in a broad row 4 to 6 inches wide 
and when the tops are 3 to 5 inches tall, thin 
out and use the tops and roots as greens. 
Crosby’s Egyptian 
This is the best kind to grow when you want to 
use Beets when very small, say up to 2 inches 
in diameter. 
Our special strain of this popular variety is 
better in many respects than the old one. It is 
globular, perfectly smooth, with short top, 
small tap root, and both skin and flesh dark 
in color. Much earlier than all other dark- 
fleshed varieties. That it is the very best early 
Beet for home or market gardens is amply 
proved by the many favorable comments that 
ccme to us. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 30c; 1% Ib. 90c; Ib. $2.75 
Green Top Wonder. A splendid kind to grow 
for “Beet Greens.” Very early and extremely 
attractive, round, bright red Beets with clean 
looking, clear green foliage that does not turn 
color even in late fall. While the small, young 
Beets are round in form, at maturity they be- 
come slightly flattened. They are very smooth 
and the skin deep red. The inside bright red 
with practically no light circle. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 30c; 14 Ib. 90c; Ib. $2.75 
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Mary Washington. A _ rust-proof Asparagus 
that is very fast growing, exceedingly tender, 
of excellent flavor, and that produces heavy 
stalks 1 to 2 inches in diameter. 
Two-Year-Old Freshly Dug Asparagus Roots: 
For quickest returns plant these large roots. 
They will give you some Asparagus this season 
and a very good crop next year and for many 
years to come. 25 for $1.15; 50 for $2.00; 
100 for $3.45; 250 for $7.25. Postpaid to you. 
Seed: Seed sown this spring will give you some 
Asparagus in three years. 
Pkg. 15¢; oz. 25c; V4 Ib. 75¢ 
Asparagus fresh from the garden has a much 
different flavor. Ask the neighbor who has an 
Asparagus bed in his garden. Once planted it 
produces for fifteen years. 
TABLE BEETS 
Detroit Dark Red Beet 
Hart & Vick Strain 
For canning either whole, sliced or cubed when 
the bulbs are over 2 inches in diameter this 
strain of Detroit is by far the best. 
The most popular table and canning Beet 
grown. As a second-early variety, we recom- 
mend it for the home and market garden. Our 
special strain is more uniform in shape and 
color than the old Detroit Dark Red. The tops 
and tap roots are small and the leaves dark 
green, shaded red. Beets are round, smooth, 
and very dark red in skin and flesh. In tender- 
ness and sweetness they are unsurpassed. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35¢; 14 Ib. $1.00; Ib. $3.00 
Good For All 
An especially fine Beet for pickling and can- 
ning whole as “‘rosebuds’” when about 11% in. 
in diameter. Bulbs are smooth, round, very 
even in color, shape and size. The flesh is deep 
crimson without any white rings, fine grained 
and tender. A very good Beet for the home 
garden. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; 1% Ib. $1.00; Ib. $3.0C 
Mangels and Sugar Beets 
No crops are more valuable for feeding 
cattle and sheep than Mangels and Sugar 
Beets. In these past few years it is hard to 
find a dairyman who does not feed them. The 
average yield is 45 tons to the acre. They are 
easily harvested, not a particle of waste to 
them, and may be stored in pit and root cellar 
with little trouble. Sow 8 pounds to the acre 
in May or June, in drills 2 feet apart, and thin 
to 10 inches in the row. 
Giant Double Sugar Green Top. Contains 
more sugar than any other. Large, oval; grow 
half out of ground. Heavy yielder. White, red 
tops. Oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65c; Ib. $2.00 
Danish Giant Yellow Eckendorf. Very large, 
thick, cylindrical blunt roots, light yellow tinged 
green above the ground. 
Oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65c; Ib. $2.00 
Long Red. These long giant 
Mangels are light red and smooth, 
and grow well out of the ground. 
Splendid for feeding and keep 
well. 
Oz. 20c; 1% Ib. 65c; Ib. $2.00 
Yellow Leviathan. Large, long, 
thick, spindle-shaped roots; light 
gray tinged with brown above the 
ground, yellow below. Flesh of 
good quality and high in food 
value. Very easily harvested. 
Oz. 20c; 1% Ib. 65c; Ib. $2.00 
