98 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. [PART I. 



CHAP. II. 

 RUTA BAGA. 



CULTURE, MODE OF PRESERVING, AND USES 

 OF THE RUTA BAGA, sometimes CALLED THE 

 RUSSIA, AND SOMETIMES THE SWEDISH, 

 TURNIP. 



Description of the Plant. 



25. IT is my intention, as notified in the public 

 papers, to put into print an account of all the 

 experiments, which 1 have made, and shall 

 make, in Farming and in Gardening upon this 

 Island. I several years ago, long before tyranny 

 showed its present horrid front in England, 

 formed the design of sending out, to be pub 

 lished in this country, a treatise on the culti 

 vation of the root and green crops, as cattle, 

 sheep, and hog food. This design was sug 

 gested by the reading of the following passage 

 in Mr. CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON'S Essay on 

 Sheep, which I received in 1812. After having 

 stated the most proper means to be employed 

 in order to keep sheep and lambs, during the 

 winter months, he adds : " Having brought our 

 " flocks through the winter, we come now to the 



