CAMPBELL SEED STORE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 


Beet, Detroit Dark Red 
Beans 
Kentucky Wonder 
Asparagus 
Mary Washington 

Campbell’s Selected Vegetable Seeds for 1947 Gardens 
All Vegetable Packets 10c, Except Where Noted. Quantity Prices Quoted on Request. 
ARTICHOKE, Green Globe—FEdible, buds, large, green and BEETS, Table—Sow January to December, all year in mild 
broad at base, attractive thistle-like foliage. Sow Sept. to climates. Greens fine vitamin source. 
April, 1 ineh deep; save least spiny seedlings; set 4 ft. apart. Detroit Dark Red. One of the finest beets for home gardens, 
Will bear in 2 or 3 years. symmetrical deep blood red. 
ASPARAGUS, Mary Washington—Excellent, rust resistant Early Egyptian. For home and market garden, deep crimson, 
variety, producing early crops of heavy green shoots. Sow zoned, roots flattened globe-shaped, small fine tops. 
March to May; transplant in Feb.; use 2nd year. BROCCOLI, Italian Green Sprouting—Early strain, large com- 
PARADISE—A new and superior variety, producing a crop 1 
year earlier than most varieties, and yielding more heavily. 
BEANS—Sow April to July. 
BUSH—Bonuntiful, early wax, very prolific, stringless. 
Piorida Belle, delicious, disease-resistant snap bean. All 
America ’44. 
Longreen—A.A.S. 46, a tender green snap bean of the string- 
pact heads should be cut before flowers appear. Sow Aug. 
to Jan. 
BRUSSELLS SPROUTS, Long Island Improved—Dwarf plants 
producing quantities of small cabbage-like heads succes- 
sively, fine flavor. 
CHINESE CABBAGE—Chihili, Head 18 inches tall, very firm 
well blanched, crisp, tender, sweet. Very early and sure 
less green pod type, but with exceptionally long pods for heading. ; ’ 
canning. Wong Bok, Head 8-10 inches tall, broad, firm, tender, well 
Stringless Green Pod, early, prolific. blanched. 
POLE—Kentucky Wonder, fine flavor, rust resistant. 
Kentucky Wonder White Seeded, excellent, 10 days earlier. 
Kentucky Wonder Wax, very prolific, delicious. 
Potomac, green, tender, round pod, fine quality. 
BEANS, LIMA. 
Bush—Fordhook, fine quality, large, plump. 
Henderson’s Bush, Baby Lima, heavy bearer, beans small, 
delicious. 
POLE, Challenger, 10 to 15 ft. vines, long pods of splendid 
Sow Cabbage July to March. 
PLANT VEGETABLES FOR A CONTINUOUS 
SUPPLY 
It is often desirable and practical to extend the harvest period 
of certain quick maturing vegetables by making a succession 
of sowings. Thus, after the first sowing, a second one is made 
a week or two later and possibly a third or fourth so that as 

quality, beans which stay green. the first crop is harvested and gone the second will be ready 




Pkts. 15c. to harvest. Most of this planning is guess work without some 
knowledge of the duration or 
time a crop is in condition for 
Campbell’s Planting Chart for the Home Vegetable Garden tine 
ampbell s Flanting Chart ror the Mome Vegetable Uarden Pn sonowing table is in- 
tended only as a guide in plan- 
Seed In Calif. Distance Between Cover Days to ning succession plantings, since 
Variety 100 ft. Sow rows plants Seed Ripen exposure and weather condi- 
Beans, bush ........ 1 Ib. March-Aug. 2-2% ft. 3-4 in. 2in 45-60 tions and the family needs of 
Beans, pole ........ ¥% lb March-July 3-4 ft. 12 in. Zein 50-75 a crop make it at best an ap- 
Bie che! weed steven lak’s 4 OZ Aug.-Feb. 2-2% ft. 16-20 in. ts in. dees proximation. 
ects hoc acre sane oz All year 1%-2 ft. 3-4 in. in = L 
Cabbage 9). ies Sune % oz Sept.-May 2-2% ft. 16-20 in. % in 902120 Pi ieees st ae 
Cantaloupe ......... Y% oz April-July 4-5 ft. 3-5 ft. % in 90-120 Beans weeks 
Carrot, f ..:..; seine 1 oz. All year 114-2 ft. 2-3 in ¥% in 70-100 Beets 6 weeks 
Bey A300, 0.0 oe *b OZ All year AAR Oett. ee - mn vas Carrots 8 weeks 
eltuce .\.5.cceanee A, OZ. ING ar ¥, -2 ft. n; n - 
Corni =... 5.1.0 eee 8 oz rota een 9-12 in. 2 in. 75-100 Cucumbers 4 weeks 
Cucumbers... oe 1 oz March-Aug. 4-5 ft. 1%-3 ft. din; 60-90 Endive 6 weeks 
eeenlent a atetopateeeane a 27 Jan.-April 3-4 ft. a i fe Ag in bee Kohlrabi 3 weeks 
NGIVe x... se ee oz. All year 114-9 ft. -10 in. in 
Tiottuce issu ee Ye oz Ral eens 123 tt %-1 ft. % in 60-90 mrepkuce Crees 
Mustard’... seo er % oz All year 114-2 ft. 6-9 in. ¥% in 60 Onions (sets) 4 weeks 
eee ake: s tors etenelaberener ete “5, OZ Aug.-April 1%-2 ft. 3-4 in. ) in ees 6 Peas 2 weeks 
ALSlOY aia.) ree 4, OZ. All year fetiourt 3-6 in. in 
Peart 5s he 1 lb. Seg Maren irre 1-2 in. 1% in 60-120 et Someone 
PODDON 2 2 5 we). sais % Oz Jan.-April 2% ft. 2-2% ft. % in 90-120 Spinach 2 weeks 
Seep gay SEL rerrn x: 1 oz All year 1-1% ft. a in. 2 in art Sweet Corn 10 days 
DING CH Fate ce we ie 1 0z Sept.-March Tao tts -6 in. in 0-60 
Squash, summer .... 2 02z. March Sent 4-5 ft. 3 ft. 1in. 60-75 rah tee) a) wpe 
Squash, winter ..... 1 oz April-Aug. 6-8 ft. 5-6 ft. lin 90-120 Care should be taken to ob- 
Swiss Chard’: ..)...... 1 oz All year 116<2) ft. Lt; % in 90 serve the planting seasons in 
LOIRE TO 230. eae. oe % oz March-Sept. 3-4 ft. 3-4 ft. % in. 60-90 the chart at the left so that 
PE UETLD tevy stash soeeeehe % OZ Sept.-March tegiet 3-7 in. ¥ in. 15-130 sowings are not made “out of 
Watermelon ........ \% oz April-Aug. 8-10 ft. 8 ft. 1 in. 90-120 season”’. 
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“DEPENDABLE SEEDS AND BULBS SINCE 1907” 
