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Long Blood Red or Ne Plus Ultra. Late; long, 

 tapering root; skin, flesh, and foliage deep red; stems 

 and veins blood-red. 



Swiss Chard, or Silver Beet, Spanish Spinach. The 

 leaves are medium size, erect, pale green with whitish 

 ribs and veins. 



Cultivated for its leaves and leaf stalks, the former being used as 

 spinach, the latter stewed like asparagus. The roots are tough and 

 fibrous and unfit for use. 



Field Varieties. Champion Yellow Intermediate 

 Mangel Wurtzel, or Gate Post, Golden Giant, Leviathan. 

 Large yellow root, flesh white; foliage pale green. 



Giant Long Red Mangel Wurtzel, or Colossal Mon- 

 arch, Norbiton Giant, Prize Mammoth, Saw Log. 

 Long root, moderately even in form; skin and flesh 

 red; leaves green, stems green stained with rose-red. 



Golden Tankard Mangel Wurtzel. Root of large 

 diameter, flesh yellow; foliage pale green. 



Klein Wanzleben. Conical, straight even root, broad 

 at the shoulder and tapering; skin and flesh white; 

 foliage pale green. 



Lane's Imperial Sugar. Long, smooth root, broad 

 at shoulder, gradually tapering; flesh white; foliage 

 pale green. 



Vilmorin's Improved White Sugar. Long, thick 

 root; skin and flesh white; foliage pale green. 



White Silesian Sugar, or White French. Long, thick 

 root; skin and flesh white; foliage clear green. 



BROCCOLI. 



Large Early White Tall, erect, dark green leaves; 

 heads very white and close. 



Purple Cape. Close, compact, large brownish -purple 



