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73. Scarlet Perfection. 78. Crimson Ball. 
74. Spinach Beet. 79. Egyptian Turnip-rooted. 
75. Perpetual Spinach. 80. Round. 
76. Seakale Beet. ' 81. Bassano. 
77. Sugar Beet. 
As the longer rooted types of beet proved unsuitable for this system o 
growing, no further mention of them is made in the following notes. 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Red-Fleshed Varieties. 
(a) Roots round. 
(1) Foliage more or less Green. 
78. Crimson Ball (Carter). — See p. 491. Stood well, but had three with green 
foliage. 
22. Detroit Early Round (Cooper-Taber) . — See p. 490. Mixed, green, 
tinged, and bronze foliage. Root very good deep colour. 
24. Early Model Red Globe (R. Veitch). — See p. 490. Stood well, but 
mixed, green, tinged and bronze foliage. 
25. Eclipse (Kelway). — Root 3 inches deep, 2 to 3 inches diameter; skin 
dark red, smooth ; one-half root above soil ; flesh dark red, zones variable, 
little core ; growth upright to spreading ; leaves many, large, wide, plain and 
crumpled, green, tinged and bronze. 
(2) Foliage Bronze. 
23. Early Model Globe (Sydenham).' — See p. 490. 
26. Early Red Globe (Barr). — See p. 490. The stock had two green-foliage 
plants. 
27. Globe (Dobbie). — See p. 491. 
28. Globe (Sutton). — See p. 491. The stock had one green-foliage plant. 
80. Round (Carter). — Root i£ inches deep, 1 to i| inches diameter; skin 
dull dark red, rather rough ; buried beneath soil ; flesh very dark red, zones 
indistinct, little core ; growth upright ; leaves fairly numerous, of narrow to 
medium width, crumpled, very dark bronze. 
(b) Roots flat-round, 
(1) Foliage :more or less Green. 
16. Arlington Globe (Cooper-Taber). — Root 2 inches deep, 2 to i\ inches 
diameter ; skin dull dark red, smooth ; one-third root above soil ; flesh dark 
red, zones indistinct, little core ; growth spreading ; leaves many, large, wide, 
crumpled (some plain), much tinged and bronze. Stood well. Mixed, green, 
tinged, and bronze foliage. 
81. Bassano (Carter). — See p. 491. Rather poor plant, roots with many 
side shoots. 
1. Crimson Ball (Barr). — Seep. 491. Stood well, but had four green-foliage 
plants. 
3. Crimson Globe (Barr). — Root i\ inches deep, i\ to 3 inches diameter; 
skin dull dark red, smooth ; one-third root above soil (some buried) ; flesh dark 
red, zones variable, little core ; growth upright to spreading ; leaves many, large, 
wide, crumpled, much tinged and bronze. Stood well, but eight green-foliage 
plants. 
4. Crimson Globe (Webb).— Root i\ inches deep, i\ inches diametrr ; skin 
dull dark red, smooth ; one-third root above soil (seme buried) ; flesh dark red, 
zones indistinct, little core ; leaves of medium to large size, fairly broad, crumpled, 
much tinged and bronze. Rather poor plant, and six plants with green foliage. 
5. Crimson Globe (Kelway). — Stood well, but had five green-foliage plants. 
21. Detroit (Kelway). — See p. 490. Stood well. Mixed, green, tinged, and 
bronze foliage. 
2. Early Model Crimson Glebe (Kelway), XXX February 19, 1918.- — Root 
2 inches deep, 2 to i\ inches diameter; skin dull dark red, smooth; one-third 
roo t above soil ; flesh very dark red, zenes indistinct, core little ; growth 
