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Varieties of Roots. 



123 



Number of thousands 



Mangels. 



Garton Long Red 

 73 per cent. 



Chirk Castle 



157 per cent. 



Norbiton Giant 

 i8s per cent. 



Sutton Long Red 

 III per cent. 



Carter Red Emperor 

 139 per cent. 



Carter Windsor Yellow 

 1 25 per cent. 



Carter Golden Tankard 

 Q2 per cent. 



Half-sugar Mangels. 

 Vilmorin Rosy 



100 per cent. 

 Harris Imperial 



136 per cent. 

 Vilmorin White 



133 per cent. 



Carter 



104 per cent. 



Sugar-beets. 



Lane Imperial 



102 per cent. 

 Danish Improved 



132 per cent. 



Klein wanzlebener 



Percentage of 



seeds germinating 



Fig. 35. — Chart shoiving relationof seed-balls to percentages of germination for mangels, 

 half-sugar and sugar-beets. The heavy bar represents the thousands of seed-balls 

 per pound; the light bar the thousands of seeds in a pound germinating. 



