Gasdelhs Salsify 
on Oyster Plant 
An ounce will sow 75 ft.; 8-10 lbs. per acre. Sow 
early % in. deep in earth that has been worked 
to a considerable depth. A desirable winter vege- 
table and one that should be used more often. 
Frost does not hurt the roots but a quantity 
should be stored in pits or winter cellar before 
_ the ground freezes. 
Mammoth Sandwich Island—110 Days. A very 
superior strain producing smooth, large, vigor- 
ous roots, 6 to 8 inches long, 1 to 1% inches 
thick. Similar to a slim Parsnip. Often called 
“Vegetable Oyster.” 
Goudie, Sorrel 
An ounce will sow 150 ft.; 10-12 lbs. per acre. 
Sow in spring’ or summer in drills. A hardy peren- 
nial which may live for several years. 
Narrow Leaved—60 Days. A superior variety 
used extensively by market gardeners. 
An ounce will sow 100 ft.; 8-10 lbs. per acre in 
drills. If broadcast sow 12-15 Ibs. 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 
y many years of careful breeding. It is of the 
~ Bloomsdale 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 possesses all the good qualities of the 
famous Bloomsdale 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 
_  @ 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 stand- 
ard 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 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 
QUALITY SEEDS FOR 160 YEARS 

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Spinach—Bloomsdale Long Standing 
glossy dark green, giving them an elasticity 
adapting them for transportation over long dis- 
tances. 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, 
vigorous growing, spreading in habit, inclined 
to grow flat on the ground, leaves large, long, 
broad. 
New Zealand—70 Days. Absolutely distinct in 
form, color and habit from other Spinach—it is 
not a Spinach, though used as a Spinach. Foli- 
age thick, succulent, dark green, never sun- 
burns, a true heat resistant, leaves covered 
with water globules like an ice-plant. Later to 
mature for table than Spinach of usual form, 
but remaining in edible condition ten times as 
long. Plants remain in edible condition from 
July until killed by frost. A sort to “cut and 
come again.” 
Old Dominion(Blight Resistant)—45 Days. A long 
Standing Blight Resistant Savoy which has the 
long standing qualities of the King of Denmark, 
and is as dark green as the Bloomsdale types. 
Leaves well savoyed and well rounded as the 
other varieties of Bloomsdale. It is quite an 
improvement over the Virginia Blight Resistant 
Savoy. 
Summer Savoy—48 Days. “All-America” Bronze 
Medal 1937. Is a new type of Long Standing 
Bloomsdale Savoy. Is later by about three days 
than Bloomsdale Long Standing’ Savoy but) 
stands about one week longer before bolting. 
Leaves are more crumpled or blistered than 
Long Standing Bloomsdale and darker green 
than Bloomsdale Long Standing. 

