312 BOTANY or CROP PLANTS 



CHARD 



The edible "leaf beets" go under various names: Spinach 

 beet, sea-kale beet, Swiss chard, silver beet, chard, and 

 Beta cycla. The flowers and fruit are hke those of the 



Fig. 127. — Chard or leaf beet (Beta vulgaris). 



common beet. Cultivation has changed its habit of growth, 

 however, such that leaves, instead of roots have become 

 developed. 



