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| Barpees Mew Vegetable TAMPALA 
BETTER THAN SPINACH , 
A pleasing change from 
all other ‘‘greens’’ 
Tampala, as a cooked, canned or quickly frozen 
green, is, in the opinion of many, far superior to spinach 
or Swiss chard. Its color is more appetizing, its flavor 
more delicious, shrinks very little, holds its color better 
and requires less cleaning and washing when preparing 
the leaves because they are smooth, not savoyed. 
Tampala is a so-called hot-weather plant doing best 
when days are long. Seed, then, should not be sown 
until the ground has become warm. Within 6 to 8 weeks 
from sowing, Tampala is ready to use when the entire 
plants make the most delicious ‘‘greens’’, either eaten 
raw as a salad or cooked as you would spinach. 
For a continuous supply of the most tender leaves, 
make several successive sowings 10 days to 2 weeks 
apart and use young plants when 6 to 10 in. tall. How- 
ever, a plant may be left every 2 ft. and leaves picked 
as they mature or 4 to 5 in. tips of each branch may be 
quickly gathered instead of picking individual leaves. 
These young stem tips and leaves may be cooked 
together, but for the best eating, we suggest that you 
separate stems and leaves. 
So tender are the leaves that they require only 5 
minutes to cook with just the water that clings to them 
when washed. Stems are cooked like asparagus for 8 to 
10 minutes, or a little longer, depending on size; they 
have a flavor suggestive of artichokes. 




STANDS HOT WEATHER 
Has more flavor, more body 
and more food value than 
Spinach or chard 
Burpee’s Fordhook 
Tampala 

1375 Burpee’s Tampala 
First offered by us in 1944 as a delicious green vege- 
table, the leaves of which are cooked, prepared and 
served like spinach but is better in many respects. 
Pkt. 15¢; 2 pkts. 25¢; 1% oz. 45¢; 
VY, oz. 75¢; oz. $2.00 
1376 Burpee’s Red Tampala 
Our second selection offered in 1945 and equal in all 
respects to Burpee’s Tampala, listed above, but instead 
of the leaves being green they are variegated green and 
red, the red extending out along the veins of the dark 
green leaves whose underside also is red. When cooked, 
prepared, and served like spinach it is most delicious. 
Pkt. 25¢; 2 pkts. 45¢; 1% oz. 60¢; 
14, oz. $1.00; oz. $3.00 
1377 Burpee’s Fordhook Tampala 
New in 1946. The darkest green-leaved selection of 
this newly recognized vegetable which has been ac- 
cepted as a “‘must”’ in every summer garden. 
Pkt. 25¢; 2 pkts. 45¢; 1% oz. 60¢; 
V4 oz. $1.00; oz. $3.00 
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