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Vegetable Seeds 9 
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FOR THE 
+HOME AND 
MARKET 
The growing of Beets constitutes an 
important commercial trucking industry 
in the South. Beets are also a good 
home-garden vegetable. The young 
Plants are considered to be superior to 
spinach and turnips for greens. Reuter’s 
Beet Seed is carefully bred and selected 
to produce smooth, uniform, beautifully 
formed, and attractive blood-red Beets 
of the finest quality. 
55 Early Eclipse. 50 days. Extra 
early. Beets of uniform size, bright 
deep red in color, round, and have small 
tap-roots. Flesh is bright, glossy red, 
zoned pinkish white, unusually sweet, 
crisp and tender. Pkt. {Oc; oz. 20c; 
% lb. 50c; Ib. $1.65; 5 lbs. $7.75. 
ot pean: 10 lbs. $13.00; 25 Ibs. 
$31.25. 
63-A Green-Top Bunching. 




















turn red. Roots round, smooth, 
slightly flattened. Flesh bright 
i blood-red. Pkt. 10c¢; 0z. 20c; %4 
} Ib. 50c: lb. $1.65; 5 lbs. $7.75. 


8 g 
54 Crosby's Egyptian. 48 ays. 
An extra-early variety for home- and 
market-garden use. Unexcelled for 
bunching. Roots are smooth, round, 
root. The flesh is very dark .blood-red. 
Tops are medium and the roots deep 
purplish red. Crisp and tender. Pkt. 
{Oc; oz. 20c; % lb. 50c; lb. $1.65; 
& lbs. $7.75. Not prepaid: 10 Ibs, 
$13.00; 25 Ibs. $31.25. 
Early Wonder Y 
Beet 
65 Early Wonder. 45 days. A fine bd 
selection from Crosby’s Egyptian, but a 
little smaller. It is the earliest and 
most perfectly shaped Beet for home- § 
and market-garden. Valuable to. truck- § 
ers and shippers for bunching... The 
roots are nearly globe-shaped, blood-red, 
with small tap-root. Tops are medium 
small and erect. Flesh is beautiful 
deep blood-red, sweet, crisp, and ten- 
der. Our pedigreed stock is the result 
of many years of breeding. Pkt. 10c; 
oz. 20c; %4 lb. 50c; lb. $1.65; 5 Ibs. 
$7.75. Not prepaid: 10 lbs, $13.00; 
25 Ibs. $31.25. 
Sow seed during the early fall and spring, | 
in rows 2% to 3 feet apart; thin to 10] 
inches apart. Plant 6 to 8 pounds of seed 
per acre. 
SUGAR BEET 
able for stock-feeding. Roots medium large 
gray. 
keeper. ) } 
beet and should be left in the ground until 
frost to secure largest yields. When small 
$5.00. Not prepaid: 
Mammoth Long Red Tbs. $21.25. 
60 days. Attractive bunching beet. | 
Voliage grayish-green and does not | 
Perfected Detroit 
Beets 
they may be used for the table. Pkt. 10c; | pad to be easily harvested. 
oz. 15¢; % Ib. 35c; Ib. $1.10; 5 Ibs. | Seeper. 
10 Ibs. $9.00; 254 31.15; 5 lbs. $5.26. Not prepaid: 10 Ibs. 
i 69.50; 25 lbs. $22.50. ~ 
REUTER SEED CO., Inc., New Orleans 
‘ABLE BEETS 

Culture. Space the rows 18 to 24 
inches apart. Work soil well and cover 
seed 1 inch deep. A rich sandy loam ja 
preferable, but nearly all soils will pro- 
duce Beets if sufficiently fertilized .and 
properly cultivated. When well started, 
thin plants to 3 to 4 inches: apart. 
Beets are usually more tender and suc- 
culent when about 2 inches in diameter, 
One ounce will sow 50 feet of row; Bb 
| to 6 pounds to an acre. 
| 57° Edmand’s Blood Turnip. 3 
days. A quickly maturing, turnip- 
shaped Beet with deep blood-red skin 
and flesh. The tops are short and the 
roots almost round. Pkt. {Oc; oz. 
2053 % lb. 50c; lb. $1.65; 5 Ibs. 
58 Perfected Detroit. 52 aays. 
The finest strain of the famous De- 
troit Beet on the market today. It is 
» the result of ten years of inbreeding and 
re-selection to produce a stock that 
has marvelously rich blood-red meat 
all the way through. It has no 
white or light colored zones in the 
flesh. Remains tender and of the 
highest quality until roots are fully 
grown. It cans red with no browns 
or purples. Superior for the table. 
Its globe-shaped roots are uniform 
in shape, color and size, and its wuni- 
form, small, slender and erect tops ap- 
peal to the commercial grower and 
shipper. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 
50c; lb. $1.65; 5 lbs. $7.75. Not 
prepaid: 10 lbs. $13.00; 25 lbs. $31.25. 
MANGEL WURZEL 
lo Mammoth Long Red. 110 days. Also 
known as. Jumbo or Colossal. A’ truly mam- 
moth variety for stock Seeding parpesss: A 
° | single root often weighs 20 to 25 pounds and 
62 Klein Wanzleben. 75 days. valu | “ingle root often 
12 to 15 inches, 314 to 4 inches at] Productive; 30-50 tons per acre is not rare in 
shoulder—tapered, white ‘with tinge of] :sood soil. 
Very rich in sugar content; good] white tinged with rase. It is often two feet or 
As easily grown as the garden} more in length by six inehes in diameter, grow- 
| ing well above the ground, thus allowing the 
In yield it is enormously 
Skin is bright red and the flesh is 
An. excellent 
Pkt. (0c; oz. 15c; % lb. 40c; Ib. 

