. Landreths' seeds : American-grown. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Pennsylvania Philadelphia. 22 SUGAR BEETS--CABBAGE. LONG BLOOD RED (very richi.—Resist drought better than any other varieties uf Herts; color deep red, flush very sweet. Grows entirely underground. Ten to twelve tons run he grown to the acre. Valuable for cuttle. Keeps well during winter. Pkts. 5c. und 10c; per oz. 10c. SWISS CHARD OR SILVER for boiling are always acceptable. Spinach cannot always be hud, and ofte
. Landreths' seeds : American-grown. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Pennsylvania Philadelphia. 22 SUGAR BEETS--CABBAGE. LONG BLOOD RED (very richi.—Resist drought better than any other varieties uf Herts; color deep red, flush very sweet. Grows entirely underground. Ten to twelve tons run he grown to the acre. Valuable for cuttle. Keeps well during winter. Pkts. 5c. und 10c; per oz. 10c. SWISS CHARD OR SILVER for boiling are always acceptable. Spinach cannot always be hud, and often Is tough and stringy. The Silver licet, on the other hand, is in season from early Spring till Autumn frost, and is infinitely superior as a table vegetable ' to Spinach, Turnip tops, or other greens. Its culture is precisely the sunie us for the ordinary table Heel. The midrib of the leaf may alone be used, or, when very' young, the entire leaf. Pkts. oc. und 10c; i>er oz. 10c. Sugar Beets. For Sugar Making and Cattle Food. We hope to persuade our progressive customers to plant Sugar Beet Seed to determine il their soils und climatic conditions ute favorable to the pro- duction of licet roots of fair size, und of from ten to fourteen per cent of sugar. Only an actual test in distinct localities will demonstrate the capabilities of a district—the requirements being principally climatic—freedom from both intense heat und continued dry weather. Too much uttcntion cannot be r*id to this subject, as the making of sugar from Heels i> the coming agricultural development of the I nitcd Suites—a I new birth—a revelation ; that occu|«itioti for fanners, fortunately Minuted, which will raise ugriculture oui of Its slough of dcs|.onii. In Kuro| there are 1400 sugur fa. toric*, and in the United States there Is 1 room lor 1000 factories euiploviug men. engaged in handling (100 t.,ns of roots, the product of ,000 acres, bringing tothi larmei growers
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