. 1902 year book : everything for the farm and garden. Nursery stock Massachusetts Worcester Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Two Varieties Possessing that Quality so Desirable both to the Harket Gardener and Amateur, RICH DARK COLOR. 1 Detroit Dark Red. So nearly in accord are we with the introducers' claims and description of this valuable variety that we quote what they say of it as follows : "Long experience has shown this variety of our own introduction to be the best deep red turnip beet, not only
. 1902 year book : everything for the farm and garden. Nursery stock Massachusetts Worcester Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Two Varieties Possessing that Quality so Desirable both to the Harket Gardener and Amateur, RICH DARK COLOR. 1 Detroit Dark Red. So nearly in accord are we with the introducers' claims and description of this valuable variety that we quote what they say of it as follows : "Long experience has shown this variety of our own introduction to be the best deep red turnip beet, not only for market gardeners, but for the home garden. Its small upright-growing tops, early maturing, and the splendid shape and color of the roots, make it popular with every one who plants it. Tops small, upright- growing, so that the rows may be close together; leaf-stems and veins dark red, blade green, roots globular or ovoid, peculiarly smooth; color of skin, dark blood- red; flesh bright red, zoned with a lighter shade, very crisp, tender and sweet, and remaining so for a long ; The only possible objection to this variety would be that it has a tendency to the ovoid form rather than the globular, a feature which, perhaps is a sectional objection rather than a general one. A large part of our -trade demands a beet as nearly round as possible and which we supposed was general, although aware that the longer types were used to some extent in other sections. How be it, this, if an objection, is so slight an one that it has not prevented us from having a constantly increasing trade since we began to sell it, its rich deep color more than off-setting any possible objection to its shape. Crimson Globe. A new comer, claimed to be the best of the Early Round Deep Crimson Varieties. As early and far superior to the Egyptian. In reply to our inquiry regarding the merit of this beet, and especially whether it would be desir- able for fall planting as well as early, a prominent se
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