ROSWELL SEED COMPAN Y 
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LIMA BEANS (Continued) 
Sieve (77 days)—The small lima of the climbers, known in the South as Carolina 
Small White or Butter Bean. Heavy yielder and bears over a long season. 
Jackson Wonder (65 days)—A baby lima of the pinto or calico type. Strongly flavored 
beans, are used for snaps or dry shelled. Plants are small and spreading, productive 
and drought resistant. Of the Henderson Bush type. 
Florida Butter Speckled (88 days)—A climber, commonly grown in the South. Adapts 
itself to adverse seasonal conditions very readily. Used either in the green shelled or 
dry bean stage. 
BEETS 
Will stand light frost. Begin planting late in March, continue plantings for succession 
until early September using six pounds seed per acre. 
Detroit Dark Red (50-60 days)—Good for early or late planting in the home or 
market garden. Good shipper or canner. Dark color, does not show zones. Globe 
shaped with small collar and tap root. Uniform and smooth. 
Detroit Dark Red Perfected (50-60 days)—Similar to the above, but with darker red 
flesh. An excellent canner. 
Early Blood Turnip (50-55 days)—-An old standard variety, well adapted to the Pecos 
Valley. Slightly flattened roots, flesh purplish-red with zones of lighter shade. 
Tops medium small, but fairly coarse. 
Eclipse (65 days)—Small top. Roots globular, medium size, bright red with whitish 
zones. 
STOCK BEETS (Mangel Wurzel) 
Very valuable stock feed that can be cheaply produced. Plant six pounds of seed per 
acre in thirty inch rows and thin to eight inches in the row. Twenty pound beets and 
thirty tons per acre are not unusual. 
Mammoth Long Red (110 days)—Our most popular variety because it is one of the 
heaviest yielders and grows about half out of the ground. Roots extremely large, 
long, slightly tapered, light red, flesh white with rose tinge. 
Golden Tankard (102 days)—Nearly cylindrical, growing partly above ground. Skin 
deep orange-yellow, flesh zoned and white. Productive and sweet. 
Giant Half Sugar Rose (90 days)—Roots long, oval and tapered. White flesh which 
is rich in sugar. 
Vilmoren Sugar—Good for table use as well as stock feed. 
SWISS CHARD or SPINACH BEET 
A member of the beet family which is grown for the top only. Green part of leaf 
used like other greens, stems used in salads. 
Fordhook Giant—Leaves are dark green, broad and upright, savoyed with broad white 
midrib. Has recently become the outstanding variety. 
Lucullus—Creamy white curled leaves, grows about two feet tall. 
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