: ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE SEEDS, ROCKFORD, ILL. 7 
Mangels and Sugar Beets 
Six to eight pounds of seed will plant an acre. 
A very valuable and economical food for cattle and sheep. Sow the 
seed in May in rows 2% ft. apart. Mangels are easily harvested, and 
ean be stored in a cold cellar or pit where they will keep all winter. 
Mammoth Long Red. Very large; red flesh. Pkt. 8c, oz. 
18c, Y% lb. 50c, Ye Ib. 90c, lb. $1.75. 
Golden Tankard. Flesh yellow. Oval. Heavy cropper. 
Ib. 50c, ¥% Ib. 90c, Ib. $1.75. 
Roots large. Pkt. 8c, oz. 18c, Yq 
Giant Half-Sugar. A hardy variety producing large crops 
with little care. Valuable for its rich 
sugar content. This is white with rose at the shoulder. Pkt. 8 
oz. 18c, 4 Ib. 50c, 4 Ib. 90c, Ib. $1.75. = 
Klein Wanzleben Sugar. !5 fast becoming the leading 
sugar beet, as it contains a larger 
per cent of sugar than other sorts. Pkt. 8c, oz. 18c, 14 lb. 50c, 
Y% |b. 90c, Ib. $1.75. 
White Sugar. Pkt. 
Attains a large size; is very sweet. 
oz. 18c, Y% lb. 50c, 4% lb. 90c, Ib. $1.75. 
Borecole or Kale 
8c, 
Sow in beds from middle 
of April to May; transplant 
and treat the same as cab- 
bage. 
Green Curled Scotch 
Hardy, very finely fringed. 
Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, 14 Ib. 
$1.00, 4% Ib. $1.90, Ib. 
$3.75. 
Dwarf Curled Green 
Dwarf, very finely fringed. 
Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, 4% Ib. 
$1.00, % Ib. $1.90, Ib. 
$3.75. 
Collards 
Georgia or Creole This is the 
one so exe 
tensively used in the South. 
Za? large, open head, 
leaves 
Ys 
Chicory 
The leaves are used as salads with 
oil and vinegar, either in their natural 
State or blanched. Moots are also 
used to mix with or to be substituted 
for coffee. Large Rooted Magde- 
burgh. Pkt. 10c, oz. 40c, 4 Ib. $1.50. 



Forms 
or a mass of 
on a tall stem. Pkt. 10c, oz. 
Ib. 45c, lb. $1.75 

TRUE GEORGIA COLLARDS. 
The peanut is 
easily grown 
in every state. wR} 
It requires but IN Ey W 
little care beyond that of thorough cultivation. A light soil is 
preferable. Plant about the same time as corn. Rootlets shoot 
into the ground from the vine, and peanuts are formed at the end 
under the surface. By mail, % lb. 18c, % lb. 29c, 1 Ib. 50c, 2 lbs. 
90c, 5 ibs. $2.00. . 
EANUTS 
. Celtuce belongs to the lettuce family but is entirely 
different in its growth and uses. The young leaves may 
be eaten as a salad, but its chief value is its central 
stem or stalk. 7 
Whether Celtuce stalks are to be eaten raw or cooked, 
you must first remove all the outer skin and fibrous 
layers down to where they become light green and ten- 
der. As a raw vegetable, cut the stalks into 4- or 5- 
inch lengths and split lengthwise; chill and eat as you 
would celery or carrots, with salt or mayonnaise. 
Cooked Celtuce stalks are pale green, attractive in 
appearance, and have a pleasing, milds flavor suggestive 
of celery, lettuce, asparagus, broccoli, zucchini and sum- 
mer squash. 
Celtuce is easy to grow. Plants grow quickly, forming 
a rosette of light green leaves which may be used, when 
young, as “greens.” In less than 90 days after seed is 
sown, the central stem or stalk is usable and will be 
found most tender at this age. The stalks are solid 
throughout, the skin greenish white and tough but the 
inside is very succulent, most delicate pale green, crisp 
and brittle. Make first sowing of seed as soon as ground 
can be worked in the spring. Succession sowings at in- 
tervals of a week or ten days will give a continuous 
supply. Pkt. 15c, % oz. 65c, oz. $1.25. 
$1.75. 

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One of the best salads for fall and winter 
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Green Curled 
oz. 20c, % lb. 50c, lb. $1.75. 
French Moss Curled 
curled. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c, % Ib. 50c, lb. 
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Swiss Chard, Giant 
One of the larg- 
Lucullus est and best va- 
riety of Swiss. Chard. Seed 
sown early in the Spring will 
produce plants quickly from 
which the thick light-colored 
midribs of the leaves may be 
cut down to the ground. New 
growth will quickly succeed 
it which may in turn be gath- 
ered. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c, 14 Ib. 
50c, % lb. 90c, Ib. $1.75. 
Swiss Chard or Silver 
Beet Sometimes called Sea 
Kale Beets. Excellent 
for greens. This does not make 
edible roots like the regular 
garden beets, but is grown for 
the broad white leaf-stalks, 
which are bunched and cooked 
in the same manner as aspara- 
gus, and make a delicious sum- 
mer vegetable. Pkt. 10c, oz. 
20c, 14 Ib. 50c, Yo Ib. 90c, Ib. 
$1.75. 

SWISS CHARD 
CRESS or Peppergrass 
Extra Curled 
Crisp, pungent leaves, finely cut and curled, dwarf and com- 
pact. Used mostly for garnishing and as a condiment. Pkt. 
10c, oz. 40c, 4 Ib. $1.50, prepaid. 
Chinese Cabbage 
One ounc 
We advise that t 
earlier) because Chinese Cabbage has a tendency to bolt to 
seed in warm weather. 
main in rows 2% feet apart, 18 inches apart in the row. 
It is very easily 
crop matures in from 8 to 10 weeks. 
Chihili This 
age. 
inches in diameter, with straight and narrow crown. 
terior bleaches creamy white, crisp and delicious. 
a good keeper and shipper. 
10c, oz. 40c, 4% Ib. 95c, Yo Ib. $1.85, Ib. $3.50. 
DANDELION 
Dandelion as a money crop is fast becoming the favorite 
spring green in the market. 
Thick Leaved 4» 
EGG PLANT 
A tender plant. 
transplant in as warm a place in the garden as you have, 
after settled warm weather. 
New York Improved Spineless 
’ variety. Pkt. 10c, oz. 60c, % lb. $1.90, Ib. $6.50. 
Black Beauty 

Broad Leaved Batavian 
The broad, thick, slightly wrinkled leaves 
form a large head which 
for stews and soups. 
iy Ib. 50c, Ib. $1.75. j 
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seas See . 
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se. 
Very hardy, leaves 
dark green. Pkt. 10c, 
Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c, 
e of seed will sow 400 feet of row. 
4 ounces per acre. 
he seed be sown in July or August (not 
Sow where the plants are to re- 
grown and takes very little space. The 
is the new grand strain of Chinese Cab- 
Grows 18 to 24 inches tall and 5 ig 7 
n- 
It is 
We have proven seed. Pkt 
improvement on the common 
the leaves being double the 
Pkt. 15c, oz. 60c. 
sort, 
size. 
Sow in hotbed or small box in the house, 
The lead- 
ing market 

RS 
Large, handsome fruit, jet black. Pkt. 
Chihili 
10c, oz. 60c, 1/4 Ib. $1.90, lb. $6.50. 

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