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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
BEET. 
DANIELS’ CRIMSON PERFECTION (Seduced from a Photograph). 
Cultivation. — To ensure a crop of good Beetroot, it is of the highest importance that the seed should be of the very best strain procursiie, 
such as offered by ourselves. Another very important point to observe is that the ground must not be specially manured for this crop, a good plan 
being to select a plot that has been cropped during the previous season with French Beans, Potatoes, or Celery. The soil should be a good light loam 
where possible, and in an open part of the gardon ; the ground should be deeply trenched (the deeper the better) quite early in the season. Before 
sowing, the ground should be made firm and level. 
Sow the seed any time from the middle of April to the end of May. For an early crop New Red Globe is one of the best. Daniels’ Crimson Perfection 
and Green Top will be found the most useful for a general crop. The seed should be sown in drills one inch deep and about 18 inches from row to row'. 
A liberal quantity of soed should be used to ensure a good plant, and when the seedlings are nicely up, they should be thinned out, leaving them 
about 9 inches apart. As a rule those sown at the end of May produce roots of better quality. Keep the beds regularly hoed and weeded so that the 
soil may be free about the plants. 
When specimen roots are wanted for Exhibition, it is the usual practice to make holes about 2 feet deep in the bed with a crowbar, and fill them 
with fine soil. The seeds are sown in these and thinned out, one plant being left to each hole. In this way splendidly shaped roots are grown. 
The crop should be lifted in October and stored in dry sand in a shed or cellar for Winter use. Care should be taken that the roots are not injured 
m any way, or they will bleed and lose quality ; also the leaves should not be cut but twisted off with the hand. In this way the roots may be kept 
until the following Summer. 
por i)7,, — 8. d. 
WT DANIELS’ CRIMSON PERFECTION SALAD. 
A grand dark-leaved variety of medium size and very 
symmetrical. The flesh, which is of the finest texture, 
is deep crimson in colour and of excellent quality. 
A first-class sort for exhibition. Owing to the fine 
deep colour of its foliage it is very valuable for orna- 
mental purposes . . • • • • per pkt. 6d. 1 6 
per oz.— s. d 
" DANIELS’ INTERMEDIATE BLOOD RED. A 
new and distinct variety ; the roots are of medium 
length and tankard shaped, a convenient size for 
boiling and no waste in cutting. The roots are of 
fine colour and excellent quality ; it is as early as the 
turnip-rooted sorts, and can be pulled easily by hand. 
per pkt. Is. — 
DANIELS’ GREEN-TOP. This splendid Green-top 
Beet is chiefly remarkable for the fine deep colour of the 
roots, which are of excellent shape and of first-class 
quality and flavour per pkt. 6d. 1 6 
CHELTENHAM GREEN-TOP. Roots very dark, of excellent 
quality ; one of the best for pickling . . . . per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
DARK RED SALAD. A very useful variety, roots a good colour 0 10 
DELL’S BLACK. A line dark-foliaged variety, roots small, but of 
exceptionally fine shape and colour . . . . per pkt. 4d. 1 3 
EGYPTIAN DARK RED TURNIP-ROOTED. One of the best for 
Summer Salads, as it comes to maturity very early . . . . 0 10 
DANIELS’ RED GLOBE. A valuable variety for 
early use. The roots are of fine globular shape, of 
rich colour and excellent flavour. It should be used early, 
if allowed to stand too long it loses as to quality. Use- 
ful for exhibition . . per pkt. 6d. 1 0 
NUTTING’S DWARF RED. Fine dark foliage . . per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
PRAGNELL’S EXHIBITION. A fine dark-leaved variety, roots very 
handsome and of good colour . . . . . . per jikt. (3d. 1 6 
SUGAR BEET. Good stock . . . . . . . . . . . . d 8 
“ We had a Show here ou July 3rd, I was awarded the Special Prize for obtaining 
most points. We have another Show on September 15th, at which I hope to do bettor,” 
—Mr. G. WOODWARD, High Wycombe. 
“ We are highly delighted with the Shallots as I have won a First Priz 9, also Prize 
dor Collection of Vegetables at the Warwick Show. I have had a First Frize for Peas, 
Daniels’ Distinction. Mr. M. BUMFORD, Warwick. 
