BEETS 
DETROIT DARK RED 
LAGO’S PERFECTION STRAIN 
Undoubtedly the best all-purpose beet for home or market 
gardens. An early globe-shaped variety, skin blood-red 
and flesh rich red and exceedingly tender. Tops small 
and green, make excellent cooking greens. We consider 
this beet the very finest of all table beets. We offer our 
Own special Lago select strain. 
CROSBY’S EGYPTIAN 
A favorite with market gardeners due to the medium size 
BROCCOLI 
GREEN SPROUTING TYPE (Calabrese) 
This is the November cauliflower-head type, 
the sprouts 5 to 6 inches long, terminating 
in small heads of green buds. These are very 
tender, requiring only 15 minutes for cook- 
ing. Special Lago strain, Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 
$2.50, Ya Ib. $6.50. 
CAULIFLOWER TYPE 
Heading broccoli produces fine large white 
heads similar to cauliflower. Its growing sea- 
son is longer and it is a favorite shipping 
variety for market gardeners. The plant is 
compact and the leaf growth so heavy that 
tying to blanch the heads is often omitted. 
BROCCOLI, ITALIAN GREEN SPROUTING (True Calabrese) 
tops and small roots. Light color, very sweet in flavor, . Maturing late, it finds a ready market. The 
varieties listed below mature in the order 
Because it is an early variety it is ex 
y y it is excellent for greens amere 
and exceptionally tender when small. Use when 2 to 25 
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Pehle diarieter. Sow seed 1% inch deep and transplant later 
to rows 2’ feet apart and 1% feet in the 
rows. Cultivate the same as cabbage. 
LAGO JANUARY 

| EARLY WONDER Any of these 
A leading shipping variety extensively used by truckers. LAGO FEBRUARY varieties: 
A leading variety for fall gardens. Roots are globular, LAGO GIANT MARCH Pkt. ie 
deep red and very tender. Tops are short and erect and | hare eaen 
bunch readily. Seed is from our own Lago pedigreed stock. 
Prices on all Beets 
10c pkt., 1 oz. 35c, %4 Ib. 85c, 
1 tb. $2.75. 
CARDOON 
or CARDONI 
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A celery-like plant, which at 



CELERIAC, GIANT 
SMOOTH PRAGUE 
maturity somewhat resembles BEET, DETROIT DARK RED 

an artichoke. The stalks are 
used in cooking, boiled until 
tender and then fried in butter. 
CELERY ROOT 
or CELERIAC 
The edible portion of this crop is 
the root, which has a tasty celery 
flavor. Handle in the fields as you 
would celery. Ready to harvest 
when roots are 2 inches in diameter. 
The plants, as they mature, are blanched by 
le wrapping in burlap. 
LARGE SPANISH SPINELESS 
¥ This is a decided favorite in California— 
produces tall fleshy leaf stalks grey-green 
and about 3 feet tall. Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. $1.00, 
i 4 Ib. $3.00. 
GIANT SMOOTH PRAGUE 
Roots are smooth surfaced and have j 
a delicious nutty, celery flavor. 
Serve fresh in salads or boil as tur- 
nips. The tops are fine in soups. 
Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 75c, Ya Ib. $3.00. 
CARDOON OR CARDONI 

BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Dandy for both home gardens and grown for market, 
where it always brings a good price. Plants are com- 
pact, producing solid, round cabbage-like sprouts CAULIFLOWER 
about | 1% inches in diameter, very treely produced ; 
from the bottom to the top of stem. Matures in DANISH GIANT (Medium Snowball) 
120 days from seed. y 
LONG ISLAND IMPROVED Following Early Snowball in time of maturity and produc- 
Maturing in 120 days, bears compact sprouts over ing larger heads, this fine variety produces unusually 
| inch in diameter maturing successively from bot- big meaty heads. Stalks are short and compact. Heads 
tom to top of stalk. Packet sows 75 feet. Pkt. 10c, rerore Lit 4 : » 
1 ox. $1.50, Vo Ib. $5.00. amy white, and at maturity weigh over 2 pounds. 


CAULIFLOWER 
DANISH PERFECTION (Late Snowball) 
This variety, planted along with the other two, gives the 
gardener a succession of harvest from early fall to late 
winter. Produces very large heads of fine quality. 
EARLY SNOWBALL 
First to mature. Compact heads of crisp meat. A fine 
shipper due to the round, even heads. Heads are pure 
white and weigh about 1 ¥2 pounds each. 
Prices on above varieties: Pkt. 15c, Yq oz. $1.25, 1 oz. 
$4.00, 1 tb. $50.00. 
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