YELLOW-FLESHED GARDEN BEET 



II. Yellow-fleshed Varieties 



Long Yellow, or Orange, Beet. — This variety is almost as 

 muchi grown in the fields as in the kitchen- 

 garden, and is the kind which is principally 

 cultivated by the cowkeepers of P^iris and 

 its vicinity, on account of its highly 

 reputed nutritious and milk -producing 

 qualities. Root long, almost cylindrical, 

 about half of it above-ground ; leaves erect, 

 stout, green, with yellow stalks ; skin of 

 root orange-yellow ; flesh golden-yellow, 

 marked with zones more or less pale, and 

 sometimes nearly white. It is the most 

 productive and one of the best Yellow- 

 fleshed kinds. 



Yellow, or Orange, Turnip Beet. — Root 

 slightly top-shaped, with a stout tap-root ; 

 skin orange-yellow ; flesh bright yellow, zoned 

 with pale yellow or white ; leaves rather short 

 and broad, crimped, 



very 

 fine- 



Long Yellow, or 

 Orange, Beet. 



undulated, with 

 yellow ribs and 

 stalks. A 

 sugary and 

 flavoured variety, 

 the root, when well 

 boiled, becoming 

 tinged with orange. 

 It is one of the best 

 additions which of 

 late years has been 

 made to the list 

 of kitchen -garden 

 plants. 



Yellow, or Orange, Turnip 

 Beet. 



BORAGE 



Borago officinalis, L. Boragi?tacecB. 



French, Bourrache officinale, German, Borretsch. Flemish, Bernagie. Italian, 

 Boragine. Spanish, Borraja. Fortugmse, Borragem. 



Native of Europe and North Africa.— Annual. — Stems 12 to 

 18 in. high, hollow, bristly, with pointed hairs ; leaves oval, rough, 

 and haired like the stems ; flowers in a scorpioid cyme, about i in. 

 broad, of a fine blue colour in the common variety, sometimes 

 violet-red or white ; seeds rather large, gray-brown, oblong, slightly 



