y Professor J. BUCKMAN, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c., &c. 



|T the meeting of the Club at Weymouth, on July 2nd of 

 the present year, amongst other plants was observed 

 the Beta maritima, common Wild Beet, which we then 

 got up by the roots in order to demonstrate the fact which we were 

 then proving by experiment that this wild beet is the parent, not 

 only of different sorts of garden and field beets, but also of the 

 Mangold Wurtzel of the farm. 



This root was shown to have a succulent centre, but was only 

 about an inch in diameter, and very much forked, whilst the 

 ascending axis instead of presenting a single upright stem was 

 branched, and some of the branches trailed upon the ground. 



Now as we had some years since instituted a series of experi- 

 ments upon the ennobling of the Wild beet which we are this 

 year repeating, and as besides, a friend of ours has been at work 

 at the same subject, we beg to lay the details of this work before 

 the club, which we are enabled to do illustrated by a series of 

 drawings which we were enabled to make from real subjects 

 both wild and cultivated and which have been faithfully 

 engraven by Mr. Worthington Smith, for the expense of which 

 We are endebted to a friend who does not wish his name 

 published. 



More than a quarter of a century has passed since we first 

 commenced a series of experiments in the garden of the Royal 

 Agricultural College, at Cirencester, on what we then termed the 



