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BEETS. 



This is not pleasing to tlie eye, and therefore injures it 

 for a market variety. The Bassano is a favorite in the 

 kitchen-garden for home con- 

 sumption, and is very early. 

 ^_c^ Long Smooth Blood Beet. 



£ ^^^^^^^^^ — "^^^^ ^® without doubt the 

 i^'^'^^^ most popular Long Beet, 

 either for market or family 

 use. Wlien grown on strong 

 ground, the roots are long, 

 smooth, free from rootlets, 

 and of fine quality. 



The White Sugae and 

 Mangel Wuetzel are grown 

 as a field-crop in dairy dis- 

 tricts, and they deserve a 

 passing word in that con- 

 nection. 



When Beets are grown for market, the ground is 

 heavily manured early in the Spring, using fifty to 

 seventy tons of yard-manure to the acre. This ma- 

 nure is ploughed under, the surface levelled, and 

 then the ground marked out, the rows fifteen to 

 eighteen inches apart, with a garden-marker. The 

 seed is put in with a seed-drill, using four to six 

 poimds of fresh seed to an acre. Four pounds would 

 be quite enough, provided all the seed would germi- 

 nate and come iip. But it is always better to have 

 garden-seeds come up too thick than too thin • es- 

 pecially is it so with Beets, for, when young, they 

 will sell readily by the barrel for greens. Gardeners 

 sometimes sell from thirty to forty dollars worth 



DAEK EED SaYPTIAN BEET. 



