BROCCOLI. 147 
Long Blood Red or Ne Plus Ultra, Late; long, 
tapering root; skin, flesh, and foliage deep red; stems 
and veins blood-red. 
Swiss Chard, or Silver Beet, Spanish Spinach. The 
leaves are medium size, erect, pale green with whitish 
ribs and veins. 
Cultivated for its leaves and leaf stalks, the former being used as 
spinach, the latter stewed like asparagus. The roots are tough and 
fibrous and unfit for use. 
Field Varieties.—Champion Yellow Intermediate 
Mangel Wurtzel, or Gate Post, Golden Giant, Leviathan. 
Large yellow root, flesh white; foliage pale green. 
Giant Long Red Mangel Wurtzel, or Colossal Mon- 
arch, Norbiton Giant, Prize Mammoth, Saw Log. 
Long root, moderately even in form; skin and flesh 
red; leaves green, stems green stained with rose-red. 
Golden Tankard Mangel Wurtzel. Root of large 
diameter, flesh yellow; foliage pale green. 
Klein Wanzleben. Conical, straight even root, broad 
at the shoulder and tapering; skin and flesh white; 
foliage pale green. 
Lane’s Imperial Sugar. Long, smooth root, broad 
at shoulder, gradually tapering; flesh white; foliage 
pale green. 
Vilmorin’s Improved White Sugar. Long, thick 
root; skin and flesh white; foliage pale green, 
White Silesian Sugar, or White French. Long, thick 
root; skin and flesh white; foliage clear green. 
BROCCOLI. 
Large Early White.—Tall, erect, dark green leaves; 
heads very white and close. 
Purple Cape. Close, compact, large brownish-purple 
heads. 
