Chap. VI.] SwBDiSH Turnips. 14$ 



if I once (/ot out, I should have kejyt out. I was very 

 anxious about them ; but much more anxious about my 

 duty to my countrymen, who have remained so firmly 

 attached to me, and in whose feelings and A'iews, as to 

 public matters, I so fully participate. I left my men 

 to do their best, and, considering the season, they did 

 very well. 1 have obsened before, that I never saw 

 my Savoys 'till two months after they were planted out 

 in the field, and I never saw some of my Swedish Tur- 

 nips 'till within these fifteen days. 



232. But, as I said before, some of m}' neighbours 

 have made the experiment with great success. I men- 

 tioned Mr. Da^iea's crop before, at paragraph 197. 

 Mr. Hart, at South Hampstead, has a fine piece, as 

 my son informs me. His account is, that the field 

 looked, in October, as fine as any that he ever saw in 

 England. Mr. Judge Mitchell has a small field 

 that were, when I saw tbem, as fine as any that I ever 

 saw in my life. He had transplanted some in the 

 driest and hottest weather ; and they were exceedingly 

 fine, notwithstanding the singular untowardness of the 

 season. 



233. Mr. James Bvrd of Flushing, has, however, 

 done the thing upon the largest scale. He sowed, in 

 June, about two acres and a half upon ridges thirty 

 inches apart. They were very fine ; and, in Septem- 

 ber, their leaves met across the intervals. On the 

 21st of September I saw them for the second time. 

 The field was one body of beautiful green. The wea- 

 ther still very dry. I advised 3Ir. Byrd to plough be- 

 tween them by all means ; for the roots had met long 

 before across the interval. He observed, that the horse 

 would trample on the leaves. I said, " never mind : 

 " the good done by the plough will be ten times greater 

 " than the injury done by the breaking of leaves." He 

 said, that, great as his lears were, he would follow my 

 advice. I saw the turnips again on the Bth of October, 

 when I found that he had heyun the ploughing ; but, 

 that the horse made such havock among the leaves and 

 his worhinen made such clamorous remonstrances, that, 

 ^fter doing a little piece, Mr. Byrd desisted. These 

 were reasons wholly insufficient to satisfy me i and at 



