. Retail seed catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. SIOUX CITY NURSERY AND SEED CO. 9 roots large, round, turnip shaped; flesh pink, zoned with white, very sweet and tender when young, becoming woody and tasteless with age. Per pkt., 5c; oz,, 10c; It)., 75c. EXTRA EARLY ECLIPSE.—This new variety has proved itself one of the best Early Turnip Beets yet introduced, and has become very popular on account of Its wonderfully rapid growth, small top and extra fine quality. Roots un
. Retail seed catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. SIOUX CITY NURSERY AND SEED CO. 9 roots large, round, turnip shaped; flesh pink, zoned with white, very sweet and tender when young, becoming woody and tasteless with age. Per pkt., 5c; oz,, 10c; It)., 75c. EXTRA EARLY ECLIPSE.—This new variety has proved itself one of the best Early Turnip Beets yet introduced, and has become very popular on account of Its wonderfully rapid growth, small top and extra fine quality. Roots uniformly globular in shape, perfectly smooth, skin and flesh Intense red, very fine grained and sweet. Excellent for forcing. Per pkt., 5c: oz., 10c; lb., 60c. DEWING'S IMPROVED BLOOD TUR- NIP.—Fine turnip shape, very symmetri- cal and free from any fibrous roots; flesh deep blood red, very tender and sweet, grows of a uniform good size, excellent for the table, and equally good for a sum- mer or winter beet. Per pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; lb., 60c. EXTRA EARLY EGYPTIAN.—Consid- ered the earliest and is ten to twelve days earlier than the Blood Turnip. Bulbs shaped lilke a flat Turnip and of a deep crimson color. Tops are so small that nearly one-fourth as many can be grown on same piece of ground as other varie- ties of table beets. Per pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; lb., 60c. EDMANDS EARLY BLOOD TURNIP.— While not strictly a first early beet it fol- lows very closely and is the most uniform of all Turnip Beets, with very small tops and short foliage of a rich red. The roots are handsome and round, very smooth, of good marketable size, and for table use no variety can excel it in fine quality. The skin is deep blood red; the flesh also is dark red and exceedingly sweet and ten- der. Per pkt., 5; oz., 10c; lb., 60c. LONG, SMOOTH BLOOD RED.—An ex- cellent late variety. Tops large; neck small; leaf stems and vines red; leaf green; roots large, tapering towards both ends, growing even with
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