52 days. [Pre-1840, Italian variety.] Beautiful scarlet-red garden beet with interior rings of reddish-pink and white. Green leaves. Notable for its earliness, attractive color, relative absence of bleeding, and vigor. Has a small % of all-white beets. Good storage variety.
 
Packet: Seed size varies considerably: 5 g (unless noted; average 380 seeds) sows approx. 30’.