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An important commercial truck crop in the South. Beets are also a 
good heme-garden vegetable. The young plants are considered to be 
superior to spinach and turnips for greens. Reuter’s Beet Seed is 
carefully bred and selected to produce smooth, uniform, beautifully 
formed, and attractive blood-red Beets of the finest quality. 
Culture. Space the rows 18 to 24 inches apart. Work soil. well and 
cover seed 1 inch deep. A rich sandy loam is preferable, but nearly, all 
soils will produce Beets if sufficiently fertilized and properly cultivated. 
When well started, thin plants to 3 to 4 inches apart. Beets are usu- 
ally more tender and succulent when about 2 inches in diameter. One 
ounce will sow 50 feet of row; 5 to 6 pounds to an acre. 
63-A Green-Top Bunching. 
60 days. Attractive bunching beet. 
Foliage grayish-green and does not 
turn red. Roots round, smooth, 
slightly flattened. Flesh bright 
blood-red. Pkt. {Oc; oz. 20c; 
% |b. GOc; Ib. $1.85; 5 Ibs, 
$8.50. Not prepaid: 10 Ibs. 
$14.00; 25 Ibs. $32.50. 
65 Early Wonder. 45 days. A fine 
selection from Crosby’s Egyptian, but a 
little smaller. It is the earliest and 
most perfectly shaped Beet for home 
and market-garden. Valuable to truck- 
ers and shippers for bunching. The 
roots are nearly globe-shaped, blood-red, 
with small tap-root. Tops are medium 
small and erect. Flesh is beautiful 
deep blood-red, sweet, crisp, and ten- 
der. Our pedigreed stock is the result 
of many years of breeding. Pkt. 1Oc; Ham 
oz. 2063 4 Ib. 6Oc; lb. $1.85; 5 lbs. 
8.50. ot prepaid: .10 lbs. $14.00; 
5 lbs. $32.50. 
56° Detroit Dark Red. 55 days. An 
excellent: variety for the commercial 
grower and shipper. It is globe shaped 
with erect medium tops and has no 
white or light colored zones in the flesh. 
One of the best. Pkt. 1O0c; oz. 20c; 
% Ib. 6GOc; lb. $1.85; 5 lbs. $8.50. 
Not prepaid: 10 Ibs. $14.00; 25 lbs. 
$32.50. 
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$4 Crosby's Egyptian. 48 days. An 
extra-early variety for home- and market- 
garden use. Unexcelled for bunching. Roots 
are smooth, round, with ‘slightly flattened 
tops; small taproot. The flesh is very dark 
blood-red. Tops are medium and the roots 
deep purplish red. Crisp and tender. Pkt. 
% lb. GOc; Ib. $1.85; 5 
Ibs. $8.50. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $14.00; 
25 lbs. $32.50. . ; 
Early Wonder 
Beet 
' $7.50; 25 lbs. $17.50. °; 
Perfected Detroit 
Beets 
58 Perfected Detroit. 52 aays. 
The finest strain of the famous De- 
troit Beet on the market today. It is 
the result of ten years of inbreeding and 
re-selection to produce a stock that has 
marvelously rich blood-red meat all the 
way through. It has no white or light 
colored zones in the flesh. Remains ten- 
der and of the: highest quality. until 
roots are fully grown. It cans red with 
™ no browns or purples: Superior for the 
. table. Its globe-shaped roots are uniform 
in shape, color and: size, and -its uni- 
form, small, slender iand erect tops ap- 
peal to the commercial grower. and 
shipper. Pkt. 10c; 0z. 20c; %4 Ib. 
60c; lb. $1.85; 5 Ibs. $8.50. Not 
prepaid: 10 lbs. $14.00; 25 Ibs. $382.50. 
PROTECT YOUR BEETS 
WITH BUG-GETA 
Beets are often injured seriously by 
Cutworms, Slugs, and Snails—Get: rid 
of these pests; bait with Bug-geta. .12 
oz. 60c; 2 Ibs. $1.20; 5 Ibs. $2.50, 
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Sow seed during the early fall and spring, 
in rows 2% to 3 feet apart; thin to 10 
inches apart. Plant 6 to 8 pounds of seed 
eae 8 SUSAR’ BEE: 
62 Klein Wanzleben. 75 aay. valu 
able for stock-feeding. Roots medium large 
—12 to 16 inches, 3% to 4 inches at 
shoulder—tapered, white with tinge of 
gray. Very rich in sugar content; good! 
keeper. As easily grown as the garden§ 
beet and should be left in the ground until Rlaaee 
frost to secure largest yields. When small 3am sd 
they may be used for the table. Pkt. 10c;% 
oz. 5c; % lb. 35c; Ib. $1.10; 5 Ibs, 
$5.00. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $7.50; 25 
lbs. $17.60. 
MANGEL WURZEL 
61 Mammoth Long Red. 4130 aays. 
The most popular variety and best cropper. 
Produces from 30 to 50 tons per acre. Roots 
extremely large; light red; flesh whité tinged 
rose. It is often two feet or more in length 
by six inches in diameter. Pkt. 10c; oz 
15c; %4 lb. 35c; Ib. $1.10; 5 Ibs. $5.00.:- 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $7.50: 25 Ibs. $17.50. 
6? Red Giant Eckendorf. 339 days. 
Grows mostly above the ground, and is, there- 
fore, easy to harvest. The roots are very 
large. Pkt. 10c; oz. 15c; % lb. 35c; Ib. 
$1.10; 5 lbs. $5.00. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 
Mammoth Long Red 
Vegetable Seeds 
9 - REUTER SEED CO., Inc., New Orleans 
