1913 Griffith and Turner Co: farm and garden supplies . §g GRIFFITH <SL TURNER CO §g a BEETS Select a deep, rich sandy loam and manure with well decomposed compost or a good chemical fertilizer. Sow in drills, 14to 16 inches apart, and cover 1 inch deep. When the young plants appear, thin to 4 or 5 inches apart. For early use, sow assoon as the ground can be worked in the spring; for autumn use, about the middle of May, and for winter use, duringJune or July, according to the variety—the long varieties requiring more time to mature than the round, early kinds. CROSBYS IMPROVED EGYPTIAN BEET
1913 Griffith and Turner Co: farm and garden supplies . §g GRIFFITH <SL TURNER CO §g a BEETS Select a deep, rich sandy loam and manure with well decomposed compost or a good chemical fertilizer. Sow in drills, 14to 16 inches apart, and cover 1 inch deep. When the young plants appear, thin to 4 or 5 inches apart. For early use, sow assoon as the ground can be worked in the spring; for autumn use, about the middle of May, and for winter use, duringJune or July, according to the variety—the long varieties requiring more time to mature than the round, early kinds. CROSBYS IMPROVED EGYPTIAN BEET. A very superior strain of the well-knownEgyptian, carefully selected, blood color, quick,rapid growth. The shape is very desirable, asshown in the accompanying photograph, be-ing not so round as the Eclipse or quite so flatas the ordinary Egyptian. It may be sownoutside as late at July. Pkt., 5c. * Oz., lb., 40c. Lb., $ CBOSBYSIMPROVED EGYPTIAN.
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