108 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



root has reached complete development, but the great 

 point is earliness ; the public being well satisfied to pay 

 more for it half-grown, if early, than when full grown, if 

 late. 



This crop I have always considered a very profitable 

 one, even at the seemingly low price of $1 per 100 roots, 

 he average wholesale price in New York markets. But 

 80,000 roots are grown per acre when sown at 1 foot apart, 

 and although the labor of pulling and bundling up is 

 greater than in some crops, yet, at $1 per 100, it will give 

 an easy profit of $400 per acre. 



Beets are an excellent article to ship, and the price paid 

 in New York, for the first lots from Savannah and Norfolk, 

 etc., is often as high as $3 per 100 roots. 



The foregoing all relates to the crop in the green state 

 for an early market, but they are also extensively grown 

 for use in fall, winter, and spring. For this they are usu- 

 ally sown later, often in sonic sections as a second crop, as 

 late as July 1st, although in the Northern States the roots 

 hardly develop enough when sown 

 after June. The manner of saving 

 them in winter, will be found under 

 the head of Preserving Vegetables 

 in Winter. 



The really useful varieties of Beets 

 are very limited in number, and are 

 embraced in the following, arranged 

 Fig. 29. SHORT-TOP as usual, according to their merit as 



BOUND BEET. market sorts. 



Short-top Round. This variety originated with us 

 About ten years ago ; it differs from the common Blood 



