U. S. Strain 
SUGAR BEET 
Root—long and turnip shape with thick shoulder and grey-white skin. 
Interior—white; high sugar content. 
Top—16 to 24 inches tall, broad, light green leaves. Resistant to Curly Top disease. 
Used for sugar making and also good for stock feeding. 
De Cicco 60 days 
Head—3 to 5 inches in diameter, light 
green and compact. It develops a high 
percentage of side shoots for further 
picking. 
Plant—2 to 3 feet high, bluish-green, 
erect and very productive. 
Well adapted to canning and quick 
freezing. Good for early crop home 
gardening use. 
Italian Green Sprouting (Calabrese) 
70 days 
Head—3 to 5 inches in diameter, with 
bluish-green, compact bud clusters. 
Plant—24 inches tall, bluish-green, erect 
and leafy. 
Best sprouting Broccoli for home and 
market garden. 
BROCCOLI 
Italian Green Sprouting Broccoli 
St. Valentine (See Cauliflower) 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Long Island Improved 90 days 
Plant—20 inches tall, compact, very uniform, productive, stems well covered with 
firm sprouts 1% to 1% inches in diameter and medium green. 
Produces cabbage-like balls successively from base of stem upward. It is unusually 
fine flavored and grown chiefly as a fall crop. 
CABBAGE 
It is important that Cabbage be uniform, high yielding and true to type. Northrup- 
King’s stocks are produced from specially grown stock seed rigidly selected for those 
qualities. Many important varieties are selected in Minneapolis breeding grounds for 
earliness, resistance to disease and high yield. 
Maturity dates listed are approximate number of days required from the setting of 
plants in the field to time heads are ready for use. 
Early Varieties 
All Head Early 77 days 
Plant—11 to 16 inches tall, short stem, 
outer leaves grey-green. 
Head—29 to 10 inches wide x 7 inches deep, 
weight about 6 pounds, flattened but 
rounded over the top, firm and tender, 
Early Kraut and shipping variety. 
Charleston Wakefield 75 days 
Plant—12 to 15 inches tall, dark green 
leaves, short stemmed. 
Head—6 inches broad at base x 8 inches 
deep, weight 3 to 4 pounds, broadly 
conical in shape. 
Similar to Jersey Wakefield but larger, 
less pointed and 10 days later. A good 
winter shipper in the South. 
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