90 THE SUGAR BEET. 



variety type that they represent. The importance of 

 small necks and growing well under ground has been 

 before explained ;^ this will also result when the above 

 named care is given. 



' This being the case, it would lead one to suppose that the saccharine ele- 

 ments were drawn principally from the soil, and not from the leaves, as before 

 stated. See " Leaves of the Sugar Beet." 



