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CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 



became therefore an object for the manufacturer to still im- 

 prove on them to the end that all the coloring should be 

 eliminated. The intelligence and enterprise of the seedsmen 

 of Europe responded to this want, and in the course of a 

 few years two prominent varieties were produced, that have 

 nearly completely satisfied it, — one of these was sent out by 

 the estimable house of Vilmorin Andrieux c\: Co., of Pari., 

 and is named "Vilmorin's New Improved White," and the 

 other "White Imperial Extra," by the distinguished German 

 house of Ernest Benary. 



These improved Sugar Beets of commerce grow nearly 

 entirely under ground, and when grown these beets define 

 themselves to be the Mangold variety, by the coarser struc- 

 ture of the root, the stouter ribs and the greater coarseness 

 of the leaves, which spring in larger masses directly from the 

 crown, than is the case with beets for the table. 



The moral of all this for my farmer friends is, that if you 

 want a beet for table use do not order "Sugar Beet" or you 

 will be very likely to find a Mangold growing in your garden, 

 a return, but not a recompense for the sweat and toil of the 

 husbandman. 



VARIETIES. 



About twenty varieties are catalogued by seedsmen, many 

 of which are but strains of the same kind, bearing the name 

 of the grower, who by careful cultivation has endeavored to 

 improve it. Classified by form they come under three classes, 

 v j z> . — t h e long^ the round and the ovoid or intermediate 

 varieties. Classified by color we have the red or scarlet, the 

 pink, the yellow or orange, and the white varieties. 



The Long Varieties. — Among the more prominent 

 of these are the Ox Horn, the common Long Red, Sutton's 



