By Mr. William Morgan. 



MS 



Horticultural Society, from seeds which were received from 

 Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, under the name of Striped 

 Beet ; the stalks and veins of its leaves are stained with 

 a most beautiful and brilliant deep lake, or crimson co- 

 lour. The White variety was also grown in the Society's 

 garden this year, from seeds presented by Sir Sami el 

 Young, under the denomination of Blete, or MamgQtld 

 Kraut * He found it used as a vegetable on the Banks of 

 the Rhine, and in Switzerland, and has, I understand, 

 cultivated it very much this season ; he speaks highly of its 

 merit, when dressed in the ways I have before mentioned. 



The Po'irte Grosse Blanche, which came from France last 

 year, with the other Beet seeds, has some resemblance to 

 the Poiree a Carde Blanche ; but it does not grow so 

 upright, nor are its leaves so long ; the stalks are pure white, 

 broader and shorter, and seem to have more substance than 

 any of the other varieties. 



The varieties of the Beta cicla should be sown late in 

 the spring, and must have a rich soil, to enable them to 

 produce the leaves large and good : they require no parti- 

 cular care, except that of being kept sufficiently thin, and 

 distinct from each other in the beds. Those that remain 



* Kraut is the general denomination in German of any Vegetable ; Mangold 

 Kraut, therefore means a Beet, the leaves of which are used as a vegetable. 

 Blete is the name given in some parts of Germany, as well as in some parts of 

 France, to the Beta cicla, but is not admitted as a correct appellation by the 

 regular Gardeners; nor indeed could it be so with any propriety, since the 

 true application of the French word Blete is to plants belonging to the 

 genus Blitum, of which two species, the B. capitatum and B. virgatum are 

 cultivated in our Gardens as ornamental annuals, under the name of Strawberry 



