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file Silesian beet with the green collar. 



These beets are originally from Silesia, an eastern 

 province of the Kingdom of Prussia. They are most 

 generally cultivated in Belgium and France. They 

 are the richest in sugar, their tissue is firm and they 

 are better able to resist the influences of cold and 

 the like, and the firmness of their tissue permits 

 of their being easily kept. I have always seen 

 this kind used. I have known some farmers and 

 manufacturers to prefer the rose collar and some the 

 green, but their preference did not seem to me to be 

 based upon any industrial advantage. The yield of 

 the one cannot be considered to be better either in 

 quantity or quality than that of the other. For rny 

 part, both for growing and manufacturing, I have 

 always preferred the green collar, and I must admit 

 that I can find no reason* whatever to justify my 

 choice. Some however think that rose collar beets 

 are apt to degenerate, but no positive experiment has 

 given rise to this opinion. It would also appear that 

 green collars are better able to withstand frost, but 

 this again is a very rash assertion. However, farm- 

 ers often sow both separately and sometimes mixed 

 half and half. The reason for this mingling, whose 

 necessity is not very apparent, seems to be easily 

 explained, that influences might arise which would 

 be contrary to the one and not affect the other, 

 and thus a goo(l crop would be obtained at any rate. 



Beet seed consists in a hard envelope which 

 contains several small germinating seeds, sometimes 

 3 and sometimes 5. Each small seed is made up of 



