PART II. 



CHAPTER I. 



VARIETIES OF THE BEET. 



These may be divided into three classes : — 



1. Those used as food for man. 



2. Those used as food for animals. 



3. Those used for the manufacture of sugar and 

 alcohol. 



The last category is of the most interest, but we 

 think it important to say a few words concerning the 

 others. 



As may be imagined, each of these classes has many 

 subdivisions, and it would be impossible to give them 

 all, so that we will content ourselves with the most 

 important. 



1 (a) Bed Beet, or Bed Castelnaudary . — The type 

 growing in our gardens is the most preferred for salads, 

 has a reddish flesh, with a root growing but little out 

 of the ground. 



(/3) Yellow Beet, or Yellow Castelnaudary. — The 

 flesh is of a darkish yellow, and skin slightly on the 

 orange; grows almost entirely beneath the surface; is 



