2']6 THE BEE, OR Feb. l6, 



Banks, Bart, to Mr. Arthur Young, coHtain's fonie hints 

 relative to it. 



" I have an experiment with the turnips which Mr. Haf- 

 tings brought home from Bentar, that I hope may prove 

 very interelHng. I fcwed lome feed in March laft, with- 

 out producing cue turnip. My gardener faid, the feed had 

 degenerated, and could never bring turnips again. I 

 differed in opinion from him, and told him, I thought it 

 wouV.l prove a valuable autumnal turnip •, for as the increaf- 

 ing heat had forwarded its growth fo rapidly, as to change 

 a biennial plant into ru annual one, I concluded that in the 

 decreafing heat of autumn it would increafe in its biennial 

 form, with more than ufual rapidity •, I accordingly ordered 

 him to fow fome in Auguft, as Coon as the wheat and oats 

 were well off the ground; he fowed accordingly on the 26th 

 of Augull, and on the 30th of November, took, up his tur- 

 nips, as is his ufual mode, to bury .them in holes, that they 

 be preferved from froit ; twenty turnips then taken indiffer- 

 ently from the heap, weighed eight pounds ; twenty other 

 turnips he had fown about the fame time, had fcarce bottled 

 at all. What fay you to the hopes of a valuable ftubble crop 

 from this ;* 



Soho-Squarc, December 16, I ;'90. 



HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



^ Curfyry ViEW of the prefent POLITICAL STATE of 

 Europe, continued from page 123. 



Great Britain. 

 NoTHTNG can exhibit a more ftriking proof of the juftlce of 

 this maxim, that extent of empire does not always augment 

 the profperity of a nation, than the prefent Hate of Great 

 Britain. A few years ago, (he loff fcveial exteniive pro- 

 vinces that were generally deemed of fo much cojifequence 

 to her, th it few people imagined fhe could well fubfift with- 

 out them. — Yet it is now univcrfaUy admitted, that rmcg 







