GARDENING FoR ALL. 37. 
Beet may be sown any time from the middle of April to 
the middle of May, early in late districts, late in early 
districts. Sow in drills an inch and a half deep and fifteen 
inches apart ; and thin out to ten inches apart in the rows. 
Should there be any blank spaces in the rows they may be 
filled up by carefully transplanting as many as are required, 
taking care to remove the plants with their roots intact and 
keeping them well watered until they have become 
established. 
Beet is a profitable crop to grow, and will sell for £20 to 
£50 per acre, according to quality, quantity, and the state of 
the markets; roots generally being sold retail at a penny 
and three-halfpence each. Beet is easily injured by frost, 
therefore it should be carefully lifted out of the soil in 
October or early in November, without breaking the root, 
and stored away in sand or soil in frost-proof pits, ‘‘ burries,” 
“camps,” or sheds. 
The root is delicious either as a pickle, or as a vegetable 
when baked, and deserves to be more frequently seen upon 
the dinner tables of the poor and middle classes; the rich 
have long recognised its high merit. 
CARROTS.— (Daucus carota). 
Carrots are not one of the most certain or most profitable 
of crops to grow, but they answer occasionally as a break to 
the ordinary routine of crops on the farm and in the market 
garden, and they are almost a necessity in every private 
garden, large or small. 
Their market value will vary according to the season of 
the year, their quality, and the general state of the crop, but 
it may vary from £20 to £40 per acre; a bad crop would 
not be worth, perhaps, more than £10 per acre, and possibly 
less than that amount. 
Carrots do well after celery, because they delight in a 
comparatively light, deep, and porous soil, and old celery 
ground generally is rich enough in food to meet their 
requirements. 
