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NOVELTIES • FOR • 1891.
The year 1800 brought out but few really desirable vegetable novelties to be offered for 1891 for, although there were many catalogued by American seedsmen last spring, a test of them reveals but few of merit for this section of the country. This list will be found to contain “the cream” of all the novelties as well as some varieties of recent introduction to which we direct your special attention, many of them being of our own introduction and now listed by some of the most prominent seed firms in the country as varieties of sterling merit. We most earnestly recommend all of the following varieties to our customers and it will pay you to try them this year.
IOWA SEED CO.’S
Market Gardener’s Beet.
[image (Market Gardener’s beet)]
[text in image: MARKET GARDENERS’ BEET]
This is undoubtedly one of the best novelties ever introduced, and it receives much praise from our customers each year. Its shape is well illustrated by the accompanying engraving. As will be noticed, it is very symmetrical, with small tap root and but few fibrous roots. Unusually small tops. Although on some soils the Egyptian Can be marketed a few days before the Market Gardeners, still within a week it will be found larger than the Egyptian, while it continues to grow until late in the fall, attaining a large size and making a good selling and eating beet for winter. By the first of October they measure eight inches in diameter and average six pounds each in weight. One sowing only is necessary to produce early beets for market and main crop for winter use, which is not the case with any other variety. Color outside is deep blood-red; inside layers of blood-red and light red alternately. When cooked they are a beautiful dark red throughout, fine grained and unsurpassed in quality. As this variety grows almost entirely under ground, it should be grown in light, loose soil. It will not do well in hard, clayey soil. Summing it all up, we find in it the Best Beet for Early Market, the Best Beet for Winter Use, and owing to the small tops permitting them to be grown close together. and the peculiar shape of the bulb, it is the Most Profitable Beet for the Market Gardener and for the family garden of any we know of.—Mr. E. S. Goff, of the Geneva Experiment Station says: “It is short conical variety of large size and quick growth.” Wm. Henry Maule says: “I consider it the best general purpose beet in cultivation.” Everyone should try at least a packet. Per packet, only 5c; oz. 15c; ¼ lb, 50c; lb,[.] $1.50.
Mammoth Red Rock Cabbage.
[image (one head of Mammoth Red Rock cabbage)]
A market gardener’s strain of unusual size, color and weight. The result of careful and intelligent selection, it must prove to be very valuable, its handsome appearance, large size, solidity and good quality will make it very desirable to all who like red cabbage. Color is very dark red. It will pay all gardeners to try this. Seed very scarce this year. Per pkt, 10 cts; oz, 60 cts; ¼ lb. $2.00.
COPPER KING ONION.
[image (one Copper King onion)]
Undoubtedly the largest variety in existance [existence], , having been grown to the enormous weight of five pounds and six ounces, and notwithstanding their large size they retain their perfect shape and fine quality, and do not become ungainly monstrosities. To obtain some idea of how large this really is, just weigh the largest onion you can obtain and compare weights or weigh out five pounds and six ounces of common onions and imagine them all in one. They are a beautiful copper color; flesh pure white, fine grained and mild. Per pkt, 10 cts; oz. 35 cts ; ¼ lb, 75 cts. lb. $2.60.

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