74 THE SUGAR EEET. 



CHAPTER II. 



EXAMINATION' OF THE BEET. 



We have had frequent occasion to examine the 

 structure of the heet, and are only too glad to state 

 that the results reached by Decaisne were in nearly 

 every case similar to our own. 



If a section be made through this root several zones 

 or concentric circles are thus made visible, but here 

 our examination would end if we had not at our dis- 

 posal the principles of botany, chemistry, and micro- 

 graphy, and even then the various observations do not 

 agree with others that have previously been made. 

 We will follow nearly the same order of examination 

 as this learned professor mentioned above which we 

 consider most excellent. 



1. With Microscope. — The first period being when 

 the two small leaves are visible above ground. Let a 

 hoiizontal section be made through the young plant, 

 and examine the same with a microscope ; we will then 

 see a row of epidermic utricles, then a layer of cor- 

 tical parenchyma^ also formed of utricles, and in the 



' Tliere are many botanical principles which have not been mentioned in the 

 above, as we consider it would lead to arguments in which the reader would 

 have but little interest. 



^ This has frequently various colors, which are apparent through the epi- 

 dermic tissue. 



