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In practice we find yellow, orange, red, white, and mixed beets 

 and mangels ; and it is curious to mark that the wild seed pro- 

 duces all these forms, so that it it just a simple matter of selec- 

 tion as to whether you will grow them all or keep to a single 

 type. This is no mere matter of speculation, but one of great 

 practical interest and importance, as by due selection very 

 different strains may be produced. Again once having develop- 

 ed a peculiar strain, it can be kept intact by judicious selection, 

 and it is in this way that the different types of roots met with in 

 the market are kept so true to the character to which they have 

 been made to arrive at. 



The production of new varieties can thus be brought about, and 

 when it is seen how much greater crops often pioceed from a 

 seed new to a soil than from the older kinds, it is a matter of as 

 great importance to produce new sorts as it may be to keep the 

 older ones up to their standard of excellence. 



Experiments of this kind are of interest, as showing the nature 

 and origin of different forms, and as indicating the amount of 

 care and attention required to keep an induced form up to a cer- 

 tain standard. 



Our examples as shown in the cuts have been planted with a 

 view of carrying on the experiments, and if by attention and care 

 in selection we are enabled to induce a fresh strain, our exertions 

 will be well repaid in the experiences gained by the processes, if 

 not in the practical results, which we hope will prove of consider- 

 able value. 



