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SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST, EO R 8M ITH, ARKANSAS 


Beet, Detroit Dark Red 
BEETS 
Sow one ounce to 100 feet of drill; 
6 to 8 pounds per acre. 
CROSBY’S EGYPTIAN (50 to 55 days). 
Roots flattened globe shape. Dark red; 
medium size. One of the best early varie- 
ties. Fine for bunching. 
DETROIT DARK RED (52 to 55 days). The 
most popular and probably the best of the 
main crop beet. Form, oval. Flesh, dark 
blood red. Skin smooth, with small tap 
roots. Extensively used by canners because 
of its good red color. A favorite beet with 
market gardeners. 
EARLY WONDER (45 to 50 days). A 
variety which has gained wide popularity 
among market gardeners. It is of the blood 
turnip type. Uniform in size, flat to globe 
shaped, bright red skin, vermilion red flesh 
with distinct zones of lizhter red. A good 
shipper. 
EARLY BLOOD TURNIP (60 days). Roots 
nearly reund or slightly flattened. 
SWISS CHARD. Stalks pure white and 
thick as rhubarb. Foliage yellowish green 
and crumpled like Bloomsdale Spinach or 
Savoy Cabbage. Very choice. The tops cook 
like spinach and the stems like Celery. Culti- 
vation same as Beets. 
STOCK BEETS 
CULTURE: Seed should be 1 inch apart in 
rows 2% feet apart and covered to a depth 
ef 1% inches. Thin to 10 inches when about 
3 inches high. It requires 8 lbs. of Mangel 
Beets to plant an acre. Stock Beets are a 
valuable food used in conjunction with other 
feeds for milk cows, hogs, poultry. 
STOCK BEETS - Continued next column. 
GIANT HALF SUGAR ROSE. A (istinct 
type of Sugar Beet producing roots of giant 
size, long oval tapering smooth. Grows half 
out of the ground. Flesh is white with high 
Sugar content, is high in food value. 
MAMMOTH LONG RED. These Beets, on 
good soil, sometimes grow 18 inches long. 
Dark leaves; flesh white tinged with rose. 
An excellent keeper; nutritious and milk 
producing. 
BORECOLE or KALE 
One-half ounce for 100 feet of row; 
4 pounds per acre. 
SIBERIAN—CURLED. A most vigorous 
and spreading variety. Leaves large and 
rather plain in the center, cut and frilled 
at edge. Color is bluish green. 
BROCCOLI 
ITALIAN GREEN SPROUTING. Culti- 
vated like cabbage, it bears a succession of 
sprouting heads. 
CAULIFLOWER 
EARLY SNOWBALL (54 days). 
very early compact and white. 
CELERY 
WHITE PLUME. The earliest and most 
easily blanched celery known. 
CABBAGE 
CHINESE OR CELERY CABBAGE 
Healthful and tasty either cooked or raw. 
Can be served like lettuce, or it makes a 
delicious cole slaw. Boiled more palatable 
than ordinary cabbage. 
WONG BOK. Short, broad, tightly folded; 
well >lanched: heads 8 to 10 inches high. 
Cabbage Yellows Resistant 
Recommended where infested “Cabbage 
Yellows” soil had prevented non-resistant 
varieties from producing a crop. 
DETROIT (Golden Acre). (55 days). The 
earliest of the round-headed yellows-resist- 
ant cabbages. Heads are medium sized, 
weigh 4 to 5 lbs. Plants are short stemmed, 
erect, with few outer leaves. 
RACINE MARKET (60 days). (Early Co- 
penhagen Market). Heads are early, solid, 
and uniform. An excellent short-stemmed 
variety for shipping. 
MARION MARKET (Copenhagen Market). 
(70 days). Resembles Copenhagen Market 
but matures about 10 days later and makes 
a much larger plant. The heads are almost 
round and very solid, weighing 5 to 6 lbs. 
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