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Title: Steckler's seeds : 1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: J. Steckler Seed Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Garden tools Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New Orleans, La. : Steckler
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ecialty, Eastern and Tennessee Grown. GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 41 this variety are smaller than the others. Theseeds are also much smaller. We recommendit and consider it a good acquisition. The seedof this variety is obtained by us from theoriginal source and is the finest stockoffered. It increases in popularity every year. Crosbys Egyptian. An improvement onthe foregoing sort; being of more uniformshape and color. Recommend same highly;it will take the place of the old variety formarket purposes. Silver Beet or Swiss Chard. This va-riety is cultivated for its large succulentleaves, which are used for the same purposeas Spinach. It is very popular in the NewOrleans market. Lentz. A strain of Blood Turnip Beetwhich originated with one of the most promi-nent market gardeners around Philadelphia.This beet, as selected and grown by him, hashad a great reputation in tlie surroundings ofthe above place, but the seed has been care-fully guarded and kept until it fell into the
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Chicago Early Blood Turnip Beet. Egyptian Red Turnip Beet. hands of a seed grower, from whom wehave received our supply. It is fully asearly as the Egyptian Beet, but largerand of brtter quality; and it has a fineturnip form with smooth roots, darkblood red flesh, tender and sweet at alltimes, never becoming tough and stringy,even when old. The cut is an exact rep-resentation of its shape. Frotschers Three-Quarter Red. A decided improvement on the Blood Turnip;excellent beet for family use and alsofor shipping; retains its color longer thanany other variety; quick growth and notmuch foliage. Extra Early Perfect. The Extra Early Beet is a very handsome dark redblood beet, nearly globe shape, but hav-ing a tendency to a slightly oblongform. It is an early beet; also a goodmain crop. They grow to a good size.The skin is very smooth and free fromfibrous roots; the flesh is a deep pur-phshed crimson, slightly zoned, and isone of the sweetest and tenderestbeets grown. The foliage is a rich,

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