INDEX. 



Annual beets, 38-43 



Atavism of beets, 39 



Beets, Analyses, 110 



Annual, 38 



Best shape of, 64 



Best soil for, 26 



Botanical description of, 7 

 Characteristic of rich, 60 

 Composition of, 71 



Cultivation for, 132 



Density of, 72-74 



Distance apart, 194-195 



Early varieties of, 2 



First experiments with, 2 

 Frpm leaves and skin, 217 

 From vertical slices, 220 

 History of sugar, 1 



Hybrids, preventing, 212 



Importance of improving, 5 

 Importance of smooth, 54-56 

 Increase of saccharine mat- 

 ter in, 5 

 Juice density of, 74-75 

 Main types of, 3 

 Method of crossing, 49 

 Seed mixing of, 6 

 Beet, poor shape, 65-66 

 Producing uniform, 28-30 

 Races and types of, 44-52 

 Sampling mothers, 79 

 Seed, price of, 2 

 Selecting for seed, 52-68 

 Selecting mothers, 35-53-69 

 Signs of quality, 62-68 

 Size of mother, 57-59 

 Standards for selection,47-48 

 Tendency to retrograde, 46 

 Time of maturity, 31 

 Transformation of types, 4 

 Transplanting young, 192 

 Varieties best adapted to 

 certain soils, 30 

 Varieties of, how named, 28 

 Buds, beet seed from, 212-217 

 Embryo, fertilization of, 12-15 

 Europe, seed production in, 

 237 

 Fertilizers for mothers, 126 

 On American seed farms, 130 

 Flower, Description of parts, 

 9-11 

 Importance of in fertiliza- 

 tion, 8 

 Pollen, analyses of, 10 

 France, seed production in, 

 237-245 



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German selecting laboratory, 



113 



Germinators, for testing seed, 



174-183 



Hanriot's sampling machine, 



99 

 Insects, which attack moth- 

 ers, 142-143 

 Juice, Analyses in the Legras 

 laboratory, 119 

 Density of, 150 

 Method of analyzing, 81-83 

 Klein-Wanzleben family, 47 

 Knauer, 236 

 Laboratory, Apparatus for, 

 110-113 

 German selecting, 113 

 Mother selecting, 103 

 Leaves indicate richness, 59-62 

 Legras, 56, 236 

 Moisture affecting germinat- 

 ing power of seed, 172 

 Amount necessary for ger- 

 mination, 198-199 

 Moisture of seed, 164-165 

 Mother beets, selecting, 35-53 

 Mothers, Fertilizers for, 126 

 Chemical changes in, 149-152 

 Cost of harvesting, 138 

 Cultivating, 133-137 

 Harvesting, 138 

 History of selecting, 69 

 Importance of uniformity 

 in, 212 

 Insects which attack, 142-143 

 ■ Planting, 133 

 Polariscope for selecting of, 

 115 

 Preparing soil for, 133 

 .Sach's method of testing, 

 104 

 Sampling, 79 

 Seed from very small, 209 

 Selecting laboratory, 103 

 Signs of maturity, 138 

 Silos for, 145-149 

 Size of, 57-59 

 Sowing seed for, 131 

 Yield of, 142 

 Planting, Depth of, 206 

 Polariscope, For selection of 

 mothers, 115 

 Tests with, 2, 84 

 Polarization continuous, 118 

 Poliakowsky method, 90 

 Pollen, Analyses of, 10 



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