(In season: all the year through)

Beetroot is ready for the table in September or October. In taking them up and in boiling them great care must be taken not to wound the outer skin, for if it is scraped and broken all the colouring matter will escape, and the root will be of a dull dingy pinkish white, instead of its own rich red.

Is a native of the seacoast of the South of Europe, and was introduced in 1656. It contains a great amount of sugar juice, which has long been manufactured into sugar. lib. contains -