16 DE GIORGI BROTHERS CO. 
Table Beets 
CULTURE—1 oz. will sow 50 feet of row, 4 lbs., to 
an acre. Plant beets when frost is out of the ground and 
the soil in workable condition. Have the rows 16 inches 
apart, plant moderately thick in the row and later thin out to 
4 inches in the row. The thinnings furnish excellent greens. 
Give frequent cultivation. 
In our section beets can be sown up to August Ist. 
EARLY BEETS—About 15th of February broadcast 14 lb. of 
seed per sash in a hot bed that is not too warm, transplant 
on a cloudy day when your plants are about 6 in. tall using 
only good plants throwing away all weak ones. You will get 
a crop of beets days ahead of field sown beets. 
EARLY WONDER BEET—You will find a marked difference 
in quality and EARLINESS between our and most other 
strains. Our stock is the result of years of breeding, produc- 
ing quickly a fine crop of smooth roots, round when young, 
semi-globular when more fully grown, deep red with small 
tap root and small neck, with tops of distinctive green color 
bunching very attractively for market. 
WHICH BEET IS THE BEST? 
For the earliest crop and for forcing try either Early Wonder 
or lowa. For canning and for a maximum crop, lowa and Detroit 
are hard to beat. The Egyptian beets are of highest quality and 
very dark in color but losing in favor possibly because more or less 
flattish. For a market with large foreign population, try Select Long 
Smooth Blood, 
Beet lowa 
ee A High Class Beet 
NEW BEET IOWA (56 days) 
VERY EARLY—HEAVILY PRODUCTIVE 
Superior in shape and color, with the extra advantage 
that its foliage is light, yet ample, to make it easy to tie. 
Globe-shaped, smooth and much darker in color than mos: 
globe-shaped beets, both in and out. Medium in size, never 
cracks open and never grows to immense proportions like 
other beets. The flesh is rich, deep, brilliant, scarlet-red 
without light zones, sweet and tender. Every plant of Iowa 
makes a shapely and salable root, even if the plantation is 
left unthinned and the plants allowed to crowd one another. 
Iowa is an all purpose beet, but especially valuable for grow- 
ing on a large scale for canneries or the wholesale trade. 
BEET IOWA is uniform in inside color being a VERY dark crimson 
without any purple or brown shade, not even when it is boiled. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; lb. $1.40. In lots of 5 lbs. or over $1.20 per Ib., 
Swiss Chard 
Also called silver beet or spinach beet. Is grown exclusively 
for {ts leaves. The root never develops to a large size and is of no 
value. The leaves are carried on long, broad, thick stalks of which 
the leafy portion is used as spinach and the stalks or midribs like 
asparagus. It produces continually throughout the summer till frost 
and furnishes an abundance of excellent “greens” during the hot 
summer months when spinach cannot be grown. Culture same as 
for beets. 1 oz. for 100 ft. row, 4 lbs. per acre. 
Lucullus and Green Giant Swiss Chards are both savoyed and 
curly. However in some markets the curly Chards are not wanted 
and if the favor is shown the smooth leaved variety, our Silver Giant 
Chard, is the sort to grow. 
An Ohio customer writes: Iowa beet beate any variety I ever 
planted. 
SWISS CHARD GREEN GIANT (55 days) 
Leaves much darker green than those of any other variety, 
crumpled and savoyed like spinach, about two feet long, about a foot 
wide with an immense snow-white fleshy midrib. Of excellent he oof 
Yields continuously from early summer until frost. Break the outside 
leaves carefully while still young. New tender leaves will rapidly be 
put forth and you can keep on harvesting all through the season. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; Ib. $1.20. 
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SWISS CHARD LUCULLUS (50 days) 
Leaves heavily crumpled, very large, stalks white, thick and ten- 
der, well flavored. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; lb. $1.20. 
SWISS CHARD SILVER GIANT (50 days) 
Leaves smooth, dark green, the stems silvery-white, fleshy, broad, 
tender and fine flavored. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; lb. $1.20. 
RHUBARB SWISS CHARD—Stalks of clear bright crimson, the 
eolor extending through the veins into the giant sized heavily crump- 
led tender leaves. Pkt. 15c; oz. 20c. 
