Ferry Seed Company, the year Grover Cleveland won back the White House. Like most seed catalogues, the one from Botanical Interests, out of Colorado, sells the Detroit Dark Red ($2.69 for about a hundred seeds), “the standard for beets since 1892,” the warhorse, a tastes-good-and-stores-well variety bred in Canada and first introduced, in the catalogue of Michigan’s D. M. Happily, you can still order five grams of Zeppo seeds for $4.35 from an outfit called Territorial Seeds, based in Oregon, by scribbling your beet deets on the order form in the back of its catalogue. Which is the beet of your dreams? The Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalogue, out of Winslow, Maine, has the reliable if unexciting Zeppo-presumably named after the youngest of the Marx Brothers-which boasts “minimal root hairs.” Unfortunately, Johnny’s $5.50 packet is out of stock.
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