48 THE BOOK OF VEGETABLES 



BEET, SUGAR. Sugar Beets are seldom used for the 

 table. If they are, they should be picked when young. 

 They are to be treated in every way like Beets, but 

 given more space, the rows should be eighteen inches or 

 more apart; thin to nine to twelve inches in the rows. 



BEET. For Silver, Leaf, Kale, Sea-Kale, Spinach or 

 Asparagus Beet, see Chard. 



BENE (Sesamum orientale) is a very tender annual 

 plant, seldom grown in the North. Commercially, it 

 yields oil of sesame, used for the skin, or in the East 

 for cooking. In domestic medicine, the leaves are 

 steeped, giving a mucilaginous infusion used foi diar- 

 rhoea or dysentery, especially of children. 



Soil light and quick. 



Distances. Eighteen inches in the row, plants 

 twelve inches apart. 



Sow under glass in March or April ; prick out, and 

 set in the open when frosts are past. 



Culture should be good ; water in a drought. 



Pick the whole plant in the fall, or the leaves as 

 wanted. 



BONESET. See Thoroughwort. 



BORAGE (Borago qfficinalis), a very pretty annual, 

 is grown for its young leaves, used in salads and for 

 making claret cup, and occasionally as a pot-herb. 



