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fecn them brought to table a foot in diameter, and 

 equally good as garden turnips. 



Turnips delight in a light foil, confifting of 

 fand and loam mixed; for when the foil is rich 

 and heavy, although the crop may be as great in 

 weight, they will be rank, and run to flower ear- 

 lier in fpring. 



Turnip-feed, like that of grain, will not do 

 well without frequent changing. Our Norfolk 

 feed is fent to molt parts of the kingdom, and 

 even to Ireland, but after two years it degene- 

 rates; fo that thofe who wiih to have turnips in 

 perfection mould procure it frelh every year from 

 Norwich, and they will find their account in To 

 doing. For from its known reputation, many of 

 the London feedfmen fell, under that character, 

 feed raifed in the vicinity of the metropolis, which 

 is much inferior in quality. 



The only rifk in fowing turnips is the danger of 

 their being eaten by the fly, efpecially in a dry 

 feafon. This is an evil for which art has not yec 

 found a certain and effectual remedy. Many 

 things have been tried, but none have anfvvcred 

 in all cafes. The following have, however, often 

 proved of fervice: — A final] quantity of foot 



fown 



