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the difference in the intenfity of each of thefe tints 

 was very great. The root is thick and fleiliy, more 

 refennbling the beetrave, or red beet, than the com- 

 mon beet; the leaves large and fuciculent, alfo more 

 rcfembling thofe of the green beet than the beetrave. 

 The ribs of the leaves are always of the fame tint 

 with the root. The flefh of the root is coloured the 

 fame as the fkin. Its tafte a mawkilh fweet, that is 

 relilhed by very few of the perfons who eat of it. 



I fowed part of the feed on a light fandy foil, and 

 part on a rich light loam. The plants on the laft 

 profpered much better than the other; it feemed to 

 me that the fand was too poor a foil- to rear this 

 plant to its full fize, though carrots, turnips, cab- 

 bages, and potatoes, were all reared upon it at the 

 fame time in the higheft pcrfedion. The feeds 

 were fown about the beginning of April. This 

 feemed to be too early, as many of the plants ran 

 up to flower during the fummer, which greatly di- 

 minifhed the crop, as they had been properly 

 thinned before they began to run. Part of them 

 were fown where they were to remain, and part of 

 them were tranfplanted. Thofe that were not 

 tranfplanted profpered the bed. 



During the fummer the leaves wpre tolerably 

 abundant, but nothing like fo luxuriant as I had 



L 2 been 



