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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS AND NOTICES. 



V. — Account of Experiments on the Groivth of Swedes. By 

 W. Miles, M.P. 



The following are the tabular results obtained from the different 

 members of the Society who tried the model experiment on the growing 

 of Swedish turnips during the last year. The conditions were, that the 

 seed should be purple top, to be procured of Mr. Thomas Gibbs, Half- 

 Moon-street, Piccadilly, and that the manures applied should be — 



Dung at the rate of . . . 20 tons per acre 



Bones 20 bushels per acre 



Poittevin or Clark's Compost 26 bushels per acre 



with the general understanding that any other manures besides the three 

 above specified might be used, and the results likewise recorded. The 

 rows were to be at the intervals of 18 and 27 inches, and not less than 

 1 of an acre were to be weighed, the turnips having been previously 

 topped and tailed. Information was likewise to be given by the experi- 

 mentalists of 



1. The preceding crop. 



2. The character of the manures. 



3. Time of sowing. 



4. How often, and what quantity sown. 



5. When set out. 



6. What disease, if any, appeared. 



7. When pulled. 



8. The weights of every J of an acre, distinguishing distances and 



the different manures. 



