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the leaf is not always typical of the root. Some of the blood 
beets have green leaves. There are many shades and colors 
of the roots, from deepest blood red to white, with zones of 
pink. The beet is an excellent and highly esteemed article 
of food, and is always in demand. 
Marketing and Storing — A bunch contains five, six or 
seven beets, with tops tied together and superfluous leaves 
cut off. The bunching and topping may be done in the field, 
and the bunches afterward washed in a tub of water, by 
means of a scrubbing brush. It always pays to send roots 
to market in a clean and attractive condition. 
Winter storage in cellars, under sand, is often practiced; 
or the beets may be kept in pits in the open ground, covered 
with straw and earth. 
Enemies. — The beet is remarkably free from enemies of 
any kind. The root sometimes cracks, and is occasionally 
attacked by insects, but the farmer or gardener has little to 
fear if soil be good and weather favorable. All farmers at- 
tending market should have a few beets to help make up the 
weekly load for the wagon. 
CABBAGE. 
Early cabbage is not a farm gardener's crop at the North, 
though in the Southern States the early varieties can be 
grown by farmers for shipment to the great Northern mar- 
kets. The Northern farmer, unless provided with glass, 
Cabbage. — For early varieties for the South, we recommend Johnson 
& Stokes' Earliest, Early Jersey Wakefield and Charleston Wake- 
field; for both early and late in the North, Johnson & Stokes' Market 
Gardeners' No. 2, Louderback's All the Year Round; for late varieties 
for the North, New Rock Head Winter, Johnson & Stokes' Matchless 
Flat Dutch, Danish Ball Head. The Johnson & Stokes' Hard Heading 
Savoy Cabbage is of rare excellence. For descriptions of the many 
varieties of cabbage, please see "Johnson & Stokes' Garden and Farm 
Manual." 
