76 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
will keep good until the spring. The poor 
se d soil of the Tel-tow district е tor i 
this turnip, 
п grown at a distance from 
total absence of manure is к " thin 
perfection. Asa meer erie it is much used in Ger- 
great excellen a is d] А 
а variety of NM vit aep stewed, '—Hor 
бое. Tran 
As the а of that paper preceded the 
дов of the seeds of the Tell-tower 
ty suprising 
succe td for on enquiry 1 
t these instruetions are wholl founded on 
th precon- 
ly aro алы у Талу 
flavour under the stim sp m 
twithstan acabe this, it turns 
ix be зо m this instance ; and, consequently, ‘that 
a vital error in gr emio, Sho uld any one now be dis» 
posed : to repeat t the experiment, they cen бо ao with 
of actual misapprehension at starting 
rs sciences 
of Agriculture and Chem mistry uch 
strides that ыа, which, forty years ago, might 
justly be regard hopeless, may now be as ea: 
of solution as a in arithmetic. fore resolv- 
ing upo w the turnip, however, th 
first question nat worth the while? 
it.—I have heard some who have not tasted it 
express eov , but I do not sitara 80 ий weight 
to their opinion, 
Supposing айу. Кик, then, to wish to try the 
experim ther four things Ve he 
would require: Ex To procure good s 2. To 
have an analysis of the ingrediente of the xL 3. 
А complete aceount of its mode of culture ;- and 4 
ог of Berlin, has had the 1 ай to 
send me supply of genuine and goo 
Аз the seed in no respect differs in tores 
rdinary turni 
urnip se and as 
which have been hitherto > made to he at 
= else- 
ere than at Tell- tower have failed, s : Зана 
likely that seedsmen be so pronis į Е ыа 
that their seed is 
ne, as 
xperimen understood and a 
Prof. Koch has also sent me a supply of the soil 
A which it grows, which has enabled me to get 
е following is the а Жы which has been 
Coe to me by Prof. oeleker, consulting 
chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England. 
ANALYSIS OF TELTOWER SOIL. 
Organic m 
Oxides of i ion and alumina, with a trace of s 
acid . à » 19 
Lime, magnes x potash, and ` (not 
determined, except by фсе) s 
Insoluble silicious matter Зы almost altoge- 
ther quarry sand) ‹ . 96°36 
100-00 
full and deta 
cultivation of which the following is a transla- 
“No gricultural ee йүн во widely spread 
as the Teltower turn This turnip is not only 
known in all ей HES bar but is also to be 
met with in Persia, P bue m x A eu 
Alexandria, Algi of Good 
Ho 1 ew 
со , ‚ and 
a raw state, We ar aly ane sn 
whether the Teltower | = really run "i 
cately in their raw state hey do wi 
со ау р а vegetable and guia wih 
chestnut t appears, ra 
t these 
ity in 
turnips are considered E х ана ава indi 
the above-named p of the Line dus same 
way as t the Bear d Reindeer ton 
З ich, to confess d Phases are ve certainly at 
equal to a Westphalian ham, or a well-sm 
Reni the following :— Mr. 
* One day we dined at cm n 
master of the ceremonies, Is 
the armia Bavarian minister Count Noniz lay 
At de 
ignorance | should not be е 
Améri rique, 
That the Teltower turnips аг рек 
abroad, is proved by а merchant 
