196 — How to Make the Garden Pay. 



Early Bassano, 

 Edmand's Turnip, etc. 



All these belong to the class of " Blood Turnip Beets," and 

 are good early or intermediate sorts for the home garden every- 

 where, and for market in many places. All are so reliable, it 

 would not be easy to choose the best among them. 



New Market Gardeners, is very symmetrical, with small 

 tap-root, and but few fibrous roots. One sowing only is 

 necessary to produce early beets for market and main crop for 



winter use. Color outside is deep 

 red ; inside layers of blood red 

 and light red alternately. 



Half Long Blood is in shape 

 what the name indicates. Good 

 for second early, late fall or winter. 

 (Long or) Improved Long 

 Blood still remains a standard 

 late and winter variety, excellent 

 for the kitchen garden. Color of 

 root a dark crimson. 



Swiss Chard forms no edible 

 root, and is cultivated mainly for 

 its leaves, which make very fair 

 greens, like spinach. The coarse 

 midribs of the leaves are some- 

 times served like asparagus, and 

 by some pronounced a good sub- 

 stitute for it. There are also 

 varieties having variegated and quite ornamental foliage, and we 

 sometimes meet them in flower gardens and borders. 



BEET.— Mangel-Wurzel and Sugar. 



Root crops for stock (horses, cattle, sheep, swine), chief 

 among them the mangels, sugar beets and carrots, are not yet 

 appreciated as a farm crop by our people as they deserve to be. 

 I have grown such crops for many years, to a greater or smaller 

 extent, and can assure my friends that they are exceedingly 

 profitable. Such immense amounts of succulent food for winter 

 and spring feeding, in the shape of mangels, can be produced on 

 comparatively small areas, when well managed, that I am con- 

 vinced any farmer who keeps stock, but makes no use of the 

 silo method, will never again omit planting mangels, carrots or 

 both, after having once made a thorough trial in the right way. 

 This latter is the important point; for if mismanaged, the first 

 trial is apt to result in utter disgust. Begin cautiously ; plant a 

 small area, and never more than you are sure you can give 



