ng sorts, not
fine grained, or suited for table use.

Productive, easily harvested, excellent and profitable for farm
purposes, and remarkably well adapted for cultivation in hard, shallow
soil.

WHITE SUGAR.

White Silesian. Betterave Blanche. _Vil._

[Illustration: White Sugar Beet.]

Root fusiform, sixteen inches in length, six or seven inches in its
greatest diameter, contracted towards the crown, thickest just below the
surface of the soil, but nearly retaining its size for half the depth,
and thence tapering regularly to a point. Skin white, washed with green
or rose-red at the crown. Flesh white, crisp, and very sugary. Leaves
green; the leaf-stems clear green, or green stained with light red,
according to the variety.

The White Sugar Beet is quite extensively grown in this country, and is
employed almost exclusively as feed for stock; although the young roots
are sweet, tender, and well flavored, and in all respects superior for
the table to many garden varieties. In France, it is largely cultivated
for the manufacture of sugar and for distillation.

Of the two sub-varieties, some cultivators prefer the Green-top; others,
the Rose-colored or Red-top. The latter is the larger, more productive,
and the better keeper; but the former is the more sugary. It is,
however, very difficult to preserve the varieties in a pure state; much
of the seed usually sown containing, in some degree, a mixture of both.

It is cultivated in all respects as the Long Red Mangel Wurzel, and the
yield per acre varies from twenty to thirty tons.

WHITE TURNIP-ROOTED.

A variety of the Early Turnip-rooted Blood, with green leaves and white
flesh; the size and form of the root, and season of maturity, being
nearly the same. Quality tender, sweet, and well flavored; but, on
account of its color, not so marketable as the last named.

WYATT'S DARK CRIMSON.

Whyte's Dark Crimson. Rouge de Whyte. _Vil._

Root sixteen inches long, five inches in diameter, fusiform, and
somewhat angular in consequence of broad and shallow longitudinal
furrows or depressions. Crown conical, brownish. Skin smooth,
slate-black. Flesh very deep purplish-red, circled and rayed with yet
deeper shades of red, very fine-grained, and remarkably sugary. Leaves
deep red, shaded with brownish-red: those of the centre, erect; those
of the outside, spreading or horizontal.

The variety is not early, but of fine quality; keeps remarkably well,
and is par