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to its value for stock, its great productiveness, and its keep- 

 ing properties, it is considered the best of all the sorts for 

 field culture. A well-enriched soil will yield from six hun- 

 dred to eight hundred bushels per acre. The seed is usually 

 sown in drills, about fourteen inches apart, but 

 sometimes on ridges, eighteen or twenty inches 

 apart, formed by turning two furrows together ; 

 the ridges yielding the largest roots, and the drills 

 the greatest quantity. 



Two pounds of seed are usually allowed to an 

 acre ; but if sown by a well-regulated machine, 

 about one half this quantity will be sufficient. 



Root very long, fusiform, contracted Long Bed 



S0ucutti* 

 a little towards the crown, but nearly YELLOW BEL- 



* OIAN. YELLOW 



of uniform thickness from the top 

 down half the length. Size large ; when grown 

 in deep soil, often measuring twenty inches in 

 length, and nearly three inches in diameter. The 

 crown rises four or five inches above the surface 

 of the ground, and is of a green color ; below the 

 surface, the skin is reddish-yellow. Flesh orange- 

 red. 



This variety, like the White, originated in Bel- 

 gium. In Europe it is much esteemed by agricul- 

 turists, and is preferred to the White Belgian, as 

 it is not only nearly as productive, but has none 

 of its defects. 



Root fusiform, three inches in diameter at the Long Yellow. 



LONG LKMON. 



crown, and from twelve to fourteen inches in 

 depth. Skin pale yellow, or lemon color, under ground ; but 

 greenish on the top, or crown, which rises a little above the 

 surface of the soil. Flesh yellow, the heart paler, and, like 

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