RED-FLESHED GARDEN BEET 



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may be used, like the Dell's Beet or the Dracaena-leaved Beet, for 

 bordering or for dark-coloured beds. 



Strasbourg Pear-shaped, Non Plus Ultra, or Intermediate 

 Dark Beet. An intermediate variety, very deeply sunk in the soil. 

 Skin and flesh of an extremely deep red, the leaves and leaf-stalks 

 almost black. This is one of the deepest coloured of the kitchen- 

 garden varieties. It is not a very productive kind, and the leaves 

 and leaf-stalks are rather large in proportion to the size of the root, 



Covent Garden Red Beet. 



Black Queen Beet 



which, unlike that of the Dwarf Red variety, when pulled, belies 

 the promise given by the foliage. 



Trevise Early Salad Beet, or Turin Red Spring Beet A 

 very pretty Salad Beet, intermediate between the half-long and the 

 round or flattened varieties. Its top-shaped form proclaims its 

 relationship with the long-rooted sorts. It is remarkable for its 

 light foliage and slender leaf-stalks. No other Salad Beet, not 

 even Nutting's Beet, produces so few leaves. 



Dewing's Early Blood-red Beet. A handsome variety of 

 American origin, it comes between the Early Blood-red Turnip 

 Beet and the Eclipse Beet, mentioned below. The root is thick, 

 smooth, rounded above the ground, but slightly conical and 



