RED-FLESHED GARDEN BEET 



III 



Blackish Red, Black-leaved Round Red, and the English variety 

 Early Blood-red. 



The American varieties, Edmand's Early Turnip, Bastian's 

 Blood Turnip, and Early Blood Turnip Beet, come very near to 

 this, even as regards earliness and colour. 



Detroit Dark Red Turnip Beet.— One of the Beets the most 

 cultivated in the United States, it appears to be a selection of the 

 Early Blood-red Turnip Beet. It has a round, somewhat ovoid 

 root, very smooth, and a fine deep blood-red colour. The flesh 

 is bright red, tender and good in quality ; the foliage very erect, 

 scant, and in colour green with deep red veinings. 



Egyptian Dark Red Turnip-rooted Beet. — An exceedingly 

 early variety, and certainly the best of the early kitchen-garden 



kinds. Roots rounded and flattened, especially underneath, almost 

 entirely underground, and resting on the surface (to which it is held 

 down by a rather slender tap-root), very symmetrical in shape until 

 it has grown larger than the fist, when it frequently becomes 

 irregular or sinuated in form as it increases in size. Skin very 

 smooth, violet or slaty red ; flesh dark blood colour ; leaves slight, 

 brown-red, more or less mixed with green ; leaf-stalks long and 

 slender, and bright red. When sown in the open air under favour- 

 able conditions, the roots of this variety may be pulled for table use 

 in June, when they are about as big as a small orange, their quality 

 being then at its best. If sown on a hot-bed, they may be pulled 

 still earlier. Like the Dwarf Red variety, the roots of this kind 

 also may be grown very close together. 



Early Flat Bassano Beet. — A stout-growing, broad, flat variety, 

 with numerous but rather slender green leaves ; leaf-stalks tinged 



Eclipse Turnip Beet, 



Early Blood-red Turnip-rooted Beet. 



