Notes and Glcanin;rs. 



lo- 



color, and quality. It is hardy and productive, good for table-use, excellent for 



pies, and well deserving of cultivation. 



The Beet. — Root produced entirely within the earth, broadest near the crown, 

 and thence tapering regularly to a point, — average specimens measuring four 

 inches in their greatest diameter, and about a foot in depth ; skin dark brown, 



thick, hard, and wrinkled or striated, sometimes reticulated or netted, much re- 

 sembling the bark of some descriptions of trees, — whence the name ; flesh very 

 deep, purplish-red, circled and rayed with paler red, fine grained, sugary, and 



