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top-shaped below. The flesh is good in colour, but not very 

 dark. The leaves are of no great size, rather light, green 

 tinged with red during summer, but a more uniform brown-red 

 colour towards autumn, and are much like those of the Egyptian 

 Beet. * 



The Arlington Favourite is a good American variety of the 

 Dewing. It is high coloured and scant in leaf, and differs very 

 little from the original. 



Eclipse Turnip Beet. — May be described as a spherical 

 Egyptian Beet. Like the latter, it is very early, smooth, and has a 

 very scant foliage, but it is distinguished from it by its globular root, 

 which, when of the same diameter, is about twice as productive, 

 and has, moreover, the advantage of attaining a good size without 



Strasbourg Pear-shaped Trevise Red Flat Beet. Dewing's Blood-red 



Beet {i natural size). Turnip Beet. 



spoiling its shape. Originated in America, it is undoubtedly the 

 best Salad Beet yet received from that country. 



Allied to this variety is the Model Beet, an English Beet with 

 leaves much reduced in size and highly coloured flesh. 



The Crimson Globe Beet, also an English variety and of 

 recent introduction, possesses characteristics very similar to those 

 of the Eclipse Beet. The root is clean, very smooth, rather long 

 than broad, with pinched extremities and well-coloured flesh — that 

 is to say, deep violet slightly zoned, tender and saccharine ; the 

 foliage scant, and in colour brown-red. 



Early Blood Red Turnip-rooted Beet. — An early variety, with 

 a round and half-flattened root, scarcely half buried in the soil ; 

 skin dark violet-red ; flesh a fine red ; leaves rather large, green, 

 broadly marbled and veined with brown-red. To this variety may 

 be referred, as almost identical with it, the kinds named Flat 

 * A Non-bleeding Beet, see p. 759. 



