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bagc tribe than to the turnip, whereas the Roota- 

 Baga you mention (from the (light acquaintance I 

 have with it) appears to be more nearly allied to 

 the turnip. 



The beft feafon for fowing for the garden, ap- 

 pears to me to be the end of May, or beginning of 

 June. Though fown ever fo early, I never faw one 

 run the fame fummer^ indeed I have fown in Au- 

 guft at the cauliflower feafon, and the greater part 

 have ftood over the following fummer, and not run 

 till the fccond fpring, which is certainly a very un- 

 common property. 



With refpe(5l to the management of the plants^ 

 they require nearly the fame treatme;it as brocoli, 

 in regard to tranfplanting, diftance, &c. They are 

 ufually mod efteemed when young, and about the 

 fizc of a moderate garden turnip j thofe fown in 

 June will continue good all the winter. The bulb 

 mull be ftripped very clean of its thick fibrous 

 rind; after which it may be treated as a turnip. 

 The fprout or crown is very good, but elpecially in 

 the fpring, when they begin to run. I ihould ima- 

 gine, from the remarkable fweetnefs of the bulb, 

 that it is more nutritious than the common turnip. 

 The largeft bulb I have mcafured .was twenty-three 



inches in circumference. 



I took 



