RHUBARB or PIE PLANT 
Victoria 
Plant—vigorous and hardy; 
yielding. 
A standard garden variety. Like other rhubarb varieties 
stalks crimson shading to green towards leaf. Heavy 
plants produced from 
seed are somewhat variable. Of the seedlings the reddest-stemmed, best appear- 
ing specimens should be selected and transplanted and the balance discarded. 
SALSIFY or OYSTER PLANT 
Mammoth Sandwich Island 
Roots—long and tapering, white. 
Top—heavy and grass-like. 
Kasily grown from seed. Used as a creamed vegetable and in flavoring soups. A good 
winter keeper in storage and some of the roots also may be left in garden over winter 
and used first thing in spring. 
SORREL 
Narrow-leaved (Silver leaf) 
Plant—perennial with long, slender, thick, bright green upright leaves with mildly acid 
under our Minnesota trial ground conditions. 
flavor. 
Used in salads and as spring greens. Sometimes caled “Sour-Grass’” because of its 
SPINACH 
Maturity days listed indicate average time required to produce marketable plants 
acid taste. 
Bloomsdale Long Standing 
(Round Seed) 45 days 
Plant type—vigorous, erect, compact and 
uniform. 
Leaf character—very thick, medium large 
leaves with incurved tip, deeply savoyed, 
rich dark glossy green, tender and of 
excellent quality. 
An improvement over the Bloomsdale 
Savoy for late Spring or Summer crop. 
A few days later, it stands several days 
longer in hot weather before throwing 
seed stalks. Extensively used for ship- 
ping, home and market garden growing. 
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ed plot of Bloomsdale Long Standing 
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Bloomsdale Savoy Reselected 
(Round seed) 40 days 
Plant type—a rapid and vigorous grower, 
upright, compact, hardy. Crowns and 
petioles upright, holding leaves up off 
soil. 
Leaf character—thick, medium large, deep- 
ly blistered, glossy dark green, quality 
excellent but bolts to seed quickly in 
warm weather. 
Because of its fast growth, good quality 
and adaptability to either spring or fall 
planting, it is widely used by home, 
market gardeners and shippers. 
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