36 GARDENING FOR ALL. 
Onion.—(For sowing in March) James’ Keeping, Bedford- 
shire Champion, Brown Globe, Rousham Park, Veitch’s Main 
Crop. (For sowing at end of July) White Italian Tripoli, 
Bassano Flat Red Tripoli. 
Parsnit.—Hollow-crowned, Student, and Elcombe’s 
Improved. 
Potatocs.— Kidney (early)—Myatts Early Prolific, Rivers’ 
Ash-leaved, Sharpe’s Victor, Early Puritan. (Second early) 
—Duke of Albany, Satisfaction, White Beauty of Hebron, 
Webbs’ Express. (Late)—Magnum Bonum, The Bruce, 
Reading Giant, Stourbridge Glory. 
Potatoes.—Round (early)—Abundance, Early Regent, 
The Dean. (Main crop)—Best of All, Imperator, Paterson’s 
Improved Victoria, Schoolmaster, and Webbs’ Renown. 
Radish.—Early Scarlet, French Breakfast, Ne Plus Ultra, 
Wood’s Early Frame. 
Turnip.—Early Milan Purple-top, Early Snowball, Model 
White Stone, Orange Jelly. 
BEET.—(Beta vulgaris). 
Beet, like similar plants, requires a deep and rich soil in 
which to grow to perfection. The tender and succulent roots 
cannot be produced to perfection in poor and dry soil; neither 
will they be of the straight, tapering, and perfect form so 
desirable if manure is applied to them near the surface of the 
soil, but they will be most likely to fork and become 
malformed and useless. 
Ground that has been liberally manured for a previous 
un-exhausting crop such as beans, peas, or celery, is well 
adapted for its requirements. In the case of following beans 
or peas, the soil must be deeply dug in the autumn or winter, 
and thrown up roughly; this should be broken down in 
March and well pulverised with a fork, and again turned over 
several days previous to sowing the seed. If we decide to 
make beet a succession crop to celery there will not be any 
necessity to dig the ground, but simply level the celery ridges, 
stir the soil once or twice with the fork, and sow the seed. 
