=The Long Varieties.=--Among the more prominent of these are the Ox Horn, the common Long Red, Norbition Giant, Carter’s Orange Globe, and the Silesian varieties of Sugar Beet. The Ox Horn is a very crooked growing variety, as its name would imply, with a small diameter in proportion to its great length. Growing almost wholly out of ground it curves about so in the row as to be decidedly in the way, is apt to break when pulled and in addition to these defects, storing very badly, it is not in any way desirable. The Norbiton Giant, Long Red, Gate Post, and Tankard are improvements over the common Long Red in a greater uniformity in their habit of growth, their size, and a less liability to grow hollow at the top at the advanced stage of growth. [Illustration: LONG RED MANGOLD.] =The Round Varieties.=--In these are included the common Red and Yellow Globe, Gate Post and Tankard, with some of the underground varieties of the Sugar Beet. =Ovoid= are either red or yellow in color and are intermediate in form between the long and the round kinds. =What Kinds to Grow.=--In this country the Long Red are the most popular, particularly the Norbiton Giant variety. While travelling in England, Ireland and France, for inquiry and observation, I found that the round and ovoid varieties were more generally cultivated than the long sorts. In my experience the ovoid varieties incline to grow smoother than the long kinds and hence are likely to bring up less earth with them, which on heavy soil is a matter of some moment. I think of the two kinds the yellow, under the same circumstances, makes the larger root. The long varieties pile better in the cellar, while the round or ovoids cut up rather more readily, appear less inclined to rot at the top, and are firmer fleshed. The globe and ovoid varieties appear to be best adapted to hard and shallow soils, and of these the Yellow Globe and Ovoid are especially valuable, as they are better keepers than most sorts and remain sound, without sprouting, until late into the spring, and with special care may be kept even into the summer season. [Illustration: OVOID MANGOLD.] The long Silesian varieties of Sugar Beet vary from each other only in the color of the part exposed above ground,--being green, grey or red. The kind introduced to the American public a few years ago, under the name of Lane’s Improved American Sugar Beet, is a strain of Long White Mangold. The improved varieties of Germany and France yield about double the percentage of sugar that is found in the common Mangold, in some crops the proportion being as high as sixteen per cent. This would make the Sugar Beets of double the value of Mangolds for stock, but unfortunately, the roots under like conditions of cultivation, average but half the weight of Mangolds. [Illustration: GLOBE MANGOLD.]