,
the sowing should be made in double rows; the ridges being three and a
half or four feet apart, and the rows fifteen inches apart. The yield
varies with the quality of the soil and the state of cultivation; thirty
and thirty-five tons being frequently harvested from an acre.

While young, the roots are tender and well-flavored, and are sometimes
employed for table use.

LONG WHITE GREEN-TOP MANGEL WURZEL.

Green-top White Sugar. Long White Mangel Wurzel. Disette Blanche a
Collet Verte. _Vil._

An improved variety of the White Sugar Beet. Root produced much above
ground, and of very large size; if well grown, measuring nearly six
inches in diameter, and eighteen inches in depth,--the diameter often
retained for nearly two-thirds the length. Skin green, where exposed to
light and air; below ground, white. Flesh white. Leaves green, rather
large, and not so numerous as those of the White Sugar.

Very productive, and superior to the last named for agricultural
purposes; the quality being equally good, and the yield much greater.

LONG YELLOW MANGEL WURZEL.

Jaune Grosse. _Vil._

[Illustration: Long Yellow Mangel Wurzel.]

Root somewhat fusiform, contracted towards the crown, which rises six or
eight inches above the surface of the ground. Size remarkably large;
when grown in deep rich soil, often measuring twenty inches in length,
and five or six inches in thickness. Skin yellow, bordering on
orange-color. Flesh pale yellow, zoned or circled with white, not
close-grained, but sugary. Leaves comparatively large, pale green; the
stems and nerves yellow; the nerves paler.

The variety is one of the most productive of the field-beets; but the
roots are neither smooth nor symmetrical, a majority being forked or
much branched.

In the vicinity of Paris, it is extensively cultivated, and is much
esteemed by dairy farmers on account of the rich color which it imparts
to milk when fed to dairy-stock. Compared with the German Yellow, the
roots of this variety are longer, not so thick, more tapering; and the
flesh is of a much deeper color. It has also larger foliage.

PINE-APPLE SHORT-TOP. _Hov. Mag._

Root of medium size, fusiform. Skin deep purplish-red. Flesh very deep
blood-red, fine-grained, as sweet as the Bassano, tender, and of
excellent quality for table use. Leaves very short and few in number,
reddish-green; leaf-stems and nerves blood-red.

In its foliage, as well as in the color of the root, i