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Buist’s Perfection Curled 
Spinach 
BUIST’S PERFECTION CURLED 
38 Days—The best first early savoy-leaved 
spinach for either home or market gardener. 
Repeated selection 
most perfect. Plant compact, erect with pro- 
liic dark green, beautifully blistered and 
crumpled leaves. 
BLOOMSDALE SAVOY 
40 Days—A nationally popular variety for 
early Spring sowing prized by gardeners, 
shippers and canners due to its hardiness and 
numerous rich green, crumpled leaves. 
LONG STANDING BLOOMSDALE 
42 Days—Popular for home and commercial 
growers alike. It combines the Savoy quality 
with Long Standing merit of retaining a lux- 
uriant freshness 10 to 14 days longer than 
other sorts before bolting to seed. A sturdy 
plant producing a heavy crop of dark green, 
well-crumpled leaves. 
PRINCESS JULIANA 
48 Days—Desirable second early sort. Com- 
pact plant with thick short stems bearing 
large round and crumpled dark green leaves. 
KING OF DENMARK 
46 Days—Excellent long season, Spring plant- 
ing variety recommended for market growers 
and cannérs. Plant low, spreading, with 
extra large, slightly crumpled, dark green 
leaves. 
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OLD DOMINION 
40 Days—Savoy type with leaves more 
pointed. Attractive and valued for re- 
sistance to “yellows” or mosaic. Sow 
only in the Fall or early Spring in areas 
where Spinach blight is prevalent. 
_ VIRGINIA BLIGHT-RESISTANT 
SAVOY | nee 
38 Days—A ‘hardy Savoy type, also re- 
sistant to “yellows” or mosaic. Grown 
extensively around Norfolk, but only 
recommended for Fall sowing. 

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Buist’s Perf. Curled ..... $0.10 $0.15 $0.30 $0.85 
Bloomsdale Savoy ...... 10. 4.15 > 2230 
Long Standing 
Bloomsdale ......... 10° 2.58 285" 
Princess Juliana ....... 10. 15 *- 430 ae 
King of Denmark ...... 10 <5 330 
Old Dominion ......... 10. 3 eae 
Va. Blight-Resistant 10 (LS Os Se 
Summer Savoy ........ 10.15 4 30ee 
Nobel. =i eee 10. See 
New .Zealand ....-.... 10 

Spinach Vitamins 
2 Oz per 100 Ft.; 10 Lbs. in Drills Ba: 
20 Lbs. per Acre Broadcast 
HE leading leaf vegetable and when 
cooked, the most appetizing, healthful a 
and nourishing of all the “greens.” oe 
Culture—As all spinach, except New Zealind?. 
shoots to seed in hot weather it thrives best ae 
as an early Spring or Fall crop and should not 
be condemned if weather conditions necessi- in 
tate replanting. Rains directly after planting me; 
invariably destroy germination, for seed will = 
rot, rather than penetrate a hard packed soil. | . 
Sow early in well prepared, limed and fertil- Tee 
ized ground, 4 in. deep in rows 1 ft. apart a 
and thin to 4 ins. in the row, planting every — 5 
10 days to May 15 for a succession. August a 
sowing for Fall and September sowing for 
Winter crops, is best. Seed sown on snow lies 
dormant and germinates in the Spring. 
SUMMER SAVOY ae 
45 Days—Recently improved strain of Long. ae 
Standing Bloomsdale for late Spring SOWIE. ee 
Excellent Summer crop, leaves dark green 
and crumpled; stands 3 to 4 days longer with- 
out bolting to seed. | 
NOBEL OR GIANT THICK LEAVED Je 
45 Days—Produces the largest spinach, suite e. 
able for home garden, market or canning. 
Plant vigorous and slow to form seed stalks. 
Leaves smooth deep green, pointed with round 
tip; large, thick and tender. — is ae 
NEW ZEALAND ee 
70 Days—Hot Weather Spinach—Ideal for 
home garden. Seeds are large, hard tit 
horny. Slow to germinate. If necessary, soak. = = 
seed before planting. Sow 1 in. deep in rows — 2k 
21% ft. apart and thin to 4 ins. apart. Although S 
not a true spinach, the leaves resemble spin- prs 5 
ach and taste similar if not better when 
cooked. When true spinach bolts to seed, New eae 
Zealand is at its best, bearing continuously = 
from July until killed by frost. Plant bushy ‘a 
with abundant, brittle but thick pointed leaves : 
of delicious flavor. As top stalks are cut, side ae 
shoots develop into another crop of leaves. _ iy 
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