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THE STJGAK BEET. 



soil is occasionally attacked by a disease called pied- 

 chaud ; its ravages take place before the plant has six 

 leaves. 



The rachitis as a general thing attacks young plants 

 that have been badly transplanted ; but it is not of 

 sufficient importance to speak more fully upon. 



A disease, if it can be so called,^ which is to be 

 greatly dreaded in America, and the exact cause of 

 which we can give no exact explanation, consists in a 



Fig 82. 



Fig. 83. 



Fig. 84. 



L.5.>/V. 



Horizontal section. 



hoUowness (see figs. 82, 83, 84), which generally com- 

 mences near the upper portion of the root, and con- 

 tinues frequently through the entire mass. This we 

 have noticed on beets that were planted on a sandy- 



