REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



527 



Twenty-nine varieties of Turnips were tested. Two sowings of each sort were 

 made, the first on May 28, and the second on June 11. All were pulled November 

 11. The soil was a clay loam, had been in cultivation since 1890, and had become 

 fairly uniform. A good clover sod was turned under in spring of 1897, and another 

 in spring of 1900, and a light dressing of stable manure given last winter which was 

 thoroughly mixed with the soil before the seed was sown. The land was uniform and 

 as will be seen, the yields are good. 



The yields per acre have been calculated from the weight of crop gathered from 

 two rows, each 66 feet long. The crop from the first sown plots gave a considerably 

 higher average than that from the second sown. 



Turnips. — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Emperor Swede 



Magnum Bonum 



Imperial Swede 



East Lothian 



Prize Purple Top 



Hall's Westbury 



Jumbo 



Monarch 



Elephant's Master 



Marquis of Lome 



New Arctic 



Skirvings 



Drummond Purple Top . . 



Prize Winner 



Sutton's Champion 



Carter's Elephant 



Mammoth Clyde 



Selected Champion 



Kangaroo . 



Giant King 



Hartley's Bronze 



Champion Purple Top . . , 



Selected Purple Top 



Bangholm Selected 



Perfection Swede 



Shamrock Purple Top. . . . 

 West Norfolk Purple Top 

 Halewood's Bronze Top. . 

 Webb's New Renown .... 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. Bush. Lbs 



30 



30 



is 



52 

 30 

 20 

 35 

 30 



15 

 45 



30 



15 

 30 



15 

 30 

 30 

 20 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



48 



38 



42 



39 



38 



42 



38 



42 



35 



34 



41 



40 



38 



42 



40 



42 



39 



35 



45 



35 



35 



39 



35 



42 



38 



37 



29 



38 



38 



30 

 1,220 

 1,140 



540 

 1,385 

 1,470 

 1,220 

 1,140 



600 

 1,630 



,820 



1,1S0 



230 



1,140 



850 



480 



540 



620 



1,0S0 



020 



950 



530 



290 



1,140 



230 



1,900 



1,730 



1,055 



65 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



2nd Plot. 





Bush. 



1,206 

 1,287 

 1,419 

 1,309 

 1,289 

 1,424 

 1,2S9 

 1,419 

 1,176 

 1,160 

 1,397 

 1,353 

 1,270 

 1,419 

 1,347 

 1,408 

 1,309 

 1,177 

 1,584 

 1,177 

 1,182 

 1,325 

 1,171 

 1,419 

 1,270 

 1,265 

 995 

 1,284 

 1,267 



Lbs. 

 30 



45 

 30 

 45 



40 

 30 



30 

 30 



40 



30 

 30 

 30 



30 



30 

 35 



45 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Twenty-four varieties of Mangels were tested this year. The soil was a loam 

 mixed sandy and clay, and had only produced one crop since breaking up. After break- 

 ing up a good deal of levelling was necessary and as a consequence the condition was 

 not uniform nor the stand even. Two plots of each variety were sown, the first on 

 April 26, and the second on May 10. All were pulled on November 6. Eour rows, each 

 one hundred feet long, of each sort was sown at each sowing and the yield was com- 

 puted from the two centre rows, each 66 feet long. 



