The compleat gardeners practice, directing the exact way of gardening in three parts : the garden of pleasure, physical garden, kitchin garden : how they are to be ordered for their best situation and improvement, with variety of artificial knots for the by Stephen Blake, gardener.

Beets.

Both red and white are for generall and Kitchin uses, they are raised of the seed, and you may sow it when you please and it will come up, but it is when it please, and that is at its naturall season: you may also sow it in any ordinary earth and it will grow, but the better the earth is, the better is the herb and yeeldeth the greater encrease also; the root will grow to a huge bigness, which is for many uses, especially the root of the red Beet.

Now I advise you to sow Beet seed in speciall rank ground in the beginning of September, and by the latter end thereof it is very probable that some of the seed will be come up, and the rest will not appear till the next Spring following: the next summer they will run to seed if you suffer them, and after they have yeelded their seed three times the root and branch dieth, yet where they are once sown, by reason of

scattering of the seed, they will not leave your Garden.