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Detroit Dark Red 
WOODRUFF’S EARLY WONDER 
DETROIT DARK RED 55-58 days 
Widely used in the East as a market garden variety because of its 
large, attractive tops and smooth skin. It is suitable for freezing while young, 
The tops are 18-22 inches tall, the roots globe shaped with slightly flattened 
top and medium size tap root. The skin is dark red and smooth, the interior 
very dark red with faint indistinct zones. Has excellent quality as diced or 
small whole beets. 
EXTRA EARLY FLAT EGYPTIAN 49-51 days 
The earliest beet in cultivation, very dark inside color, small tops and 
flattened roots. 
GREEN TOP BUNCHING 58 days 
An excellent beet with foliage that remains green in cool weather. It 
has tops 15-19 inches tall, and the roots are smooth, round, 22-3 inches 
in diameter, with a medium dark skin and bright blood red flesh. 
LUTZ GREEN LEAF (Winter Keeper) 70 days 
An excellent home garden variety, with tops 14-18 inches high, glossy 
green leaves with pale pink midribs that remain free from frost discolora- 
tion. The roots are long top shaped, 2%4-3 inches in diameter, have a large 
tap root, very dark purplish red, smooth skin. The interior is very dark with 
distinct incomplete pale zones. 
MANGEL-WURZEL BEET 
49-52 days MAMMOTH LONG RED 110 days 
A splendid extra early variety equally good for the An improved strain of the Long Red which grows very 
trucker or market gardener. The roots are semi-globe shaped 
with medium dark green tops tinged with bronze, and small 
tap root. The skin is dark red, flesh deep blood-red with 
little zoning. 
ASGROW WONDER 50-52 days 
TALEAMERICA(@S SELECTION? Gold Medal 1934 
Extra early. The roots are the deepest red all through, 
semi-flat with rounded bottom, large and smooth skinned, 
fifteen inch tops for good bunching. 
CROSBY EGYPTIAN 50-52 days 
An Early Wonder type, usually with slightly flatter roots 
and lighter interior color with more distinct zones, for which 
reason it is becoming less popular. 
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large and well out of the ground. It has long, straight roots 
of a medium red color; does best on light soils. It is the 
mangel most used for stock feeding. 
GOLDEN TANKARD 100 days 
A good yielder, roots long and oval shaped, large. The 
flesh is orange yellow, tops small and yellow green. 
GIANT HALF SUGAR ROSE 90 days 
Roots are broad, wedge-shaped, rose color above ground 
and white below ground. White flesh. 
GIANT HALF SUGAR GREEN TOP 90 days 
Similar to Giant Half Sugar Rose, except that the root is 
greenish above ground. 
