ROOT CROPS UNDER GLASS 145 
profit in growing the Egyptian onion under glass in cold 
localities, but I am not aware that it has been tried com- 
mercially. The bulblets, which form in place of seed, could 
be planted in flats of rich earth, 6 inches deep, well watered 
and attended to until freezing weather, when they could be 
covered thickly with straw until needed, or brought under 
glass at once. The after treatment would be similar, ex- 
cept that a temperature below 65° would prove most satis- 
factory.”’ 
BEETS, CARROTS, AND TURNIPS. 
The root crops grow readily in lettuce beds, but their 
commercial value is so 
small and the length 
of time required for 
their growth so great 
that they are rarely 
profitable. Beets are 
occasionally grown 
between the late win- 
ter crops of tomatoes 
or cucumbers. If the 
house has grown let- 
tuce or other cool 
crops, the beets may 
be transplanted into 
the beds in rows 
aout) 3 fect apart, 
setting the cucumber 
plants between the 
rows. The beets 
should be off by the 
time the other plants 
demand all the room. 
The turnip beets (like 
the Egyptian), half- 
long carrots and early varieties of turnips are the varieties 
47. A bunch of winter carrots. 
