174 Market Gardening. 



only proved to be one of the earliest, but one of the 

 most profitable as a market variety. The Cardinal 

 is a promising new sort, early, of large size, very 

 smooth, and in every way desirable. The Acme was 

 for a time a leading sort, and although it rots badly is 

 very desirable where it can be grown. The Mayflower 

 is highly recommended as a very early, smooth sort, 

 equally desirable for market or home use. Living- 

 stone's Favorite and Perfection are two most excellent 

 sorts, and are both good shippers and not liable to rot 

 or crack. The Emery is the first early market variety, 

 of good size and quality; — but of course the very 

 early sorts cannot be expected to be as solid as the 

 later ones. Only leading varieties are here mentioned. 



Turnips {Brassica rapd). This crop is not very 

 extensively grown in the market garden, as the demand 

 is quite limited. The flat varieties are the only ones 

 cultivated for early marketing. 



The soil best adapted to the crop is a sandy or 

 gravelly loam, well enriched and thoroughly worked. 

 The seed should be sown as early in the spring as 

 the ground can be worked, in drills about fourteen 

 inches apart. After the plants have reached the proper 

 size, thin to six or eight inches apart in the drill. By 

 the last of June, in ordinary seasons, they will have 

 reached the size of an ordinary "Boston cracker" and 

 are then ready for bunching. 



They are tied five in a bunch and marketed in the 

 same manner as early beets. The Early Milan Purple 

 Top and the Early Purple Top Munich, which closely 

 resemble each other in most particulars, are the princi- 



