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The Sugar-Beet in America 



mild winter. In the spring growth is resumed, and by 

 early autumn the seed is ripe and again ready for planting. 



PARTS OF THE PLANT 



The enlarged root is the predominating part of the beet 

 plant. The first year the stem consists of the crown on 



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 FiQ. 4. — The sugar-beet has a very extensive root system. 



top of the root from which the leaves spring. It is very 

 much shortened and scarcely distinguishable from the 

 fleshy root. The second year seed-stalks are sent up two 



