SUMMER-SOWN BEET AT WISLEY, 1917-18. 
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SUMMER-SOWN BEET AT WISLEY, 1917-18. 
Eighty-one stocks of beet were sown at Wisley on July 11, 1917, to 
determine the varieties most suitable for late sowing. They included 
all types of root, but only the turnip-shaped beets came to sufficient 
size to make this method of growing beets worth while. Many of these, 
however, were of a size suitable for use from Christmas onwards, the 
best being Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 31, 33, 78. 
It seems little known that, at least on well drained soils in the south 
of England, round beets sown by mid- July will reach a size suitable 
for cooking and may be left out unprotected through the whole winter, 
remaining useful until May. It is unsafe to leave the spring-sown beets 
on the ground, but so long as the summer-sown plants have not reached 
such a size that the crown begins to fork, they suffer little or no 
damage, even in severe weather. 
Varieties. 
•1. 
2. 
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4. 
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6. 
7- 
8. 
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10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
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18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
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24. 
25- 
26. 
27- 
28. 
29. 
30- 
3i- 
32. 
33- 
34- 
35- 
36. 
Crimson Ball. 
Early Model Crimson Globe. 
Crimson Globe (Kelway). 
Crimson Globe (Webb). 
Crimson Globe, Sutton's (Kel- 
way). 
Crimson Globe (Cooper-Taber). 
Crimson Globe (Nutting). 
Excelsior Turnip-rooted. 
Reliance Globe. 
Witham Fireball. 
Crosby's Egyptian Beet. 
The Crosby. 
Egyptian Turnip-rooted. 
Egyptian Turnip-rooted Selected. 
Egyptian Turnip-rooted. 
Arlington Globe. 
Defiance Dark Red Turnip- 
rooted. 
Defiance. 
Prizetaker. 
Model or Improved Globe. 
Detroit. 
Early Model Globe. 
Early Model Red Globe. 
Eclipse. 
Early Red Globe. 
Globe (Dobbie. 
Globe (Sutton). 
Middleton Park. 
Dell's Black. 
Superb Red. 
Pear-shaped. 
Crimson (Nutting's). 
Purple. 
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38. 
39- 
40. 
41. 
42. 
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44. 
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46. 
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48. J 
49- 
5°- 
5i- 
52. 
53- 
54- 
55- 
56. 
57-, 
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60. 
61. 
62. 
63. 
64. 
65. 
66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70. 
7 1 - 
72. 
Queen of the Blacks. 
Intermediate No. 1. 
Intermediate No. 2. 
New Intermediate. 
Intermediate. 
Cheltenham Green Top Selected. 
Purple. 
Perfection. 
Whyte's Black. 
Market Favourite. 
Pine Apple. 
Henderson's Pineapple. 
Dwarf Red. 
Nutting's Dwarf Red. 
Brydon's Exhibition. 
Dewar's Northumberland Red. 
Dewar's Northumberland Red 
Selected. 
Pragnell's Exhibition re-selected. 
Covent Garden Compact Top. 
Crimson King. 
Dainty. 
St. Osyth. 
Black King. 
Elcombe's Victoria. 
Purple. 
Goldie's Superb Black. 
Dell's Crimson extra select. 
Blood Red. 
No. 100 Non-bleeding Deep 
Blood Red. 
See p. 107. 
