102 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. [PART I. 



of pt$% when a* nearly their full size, or like 

 the green of a young and thrifty early York 

 shire ^4b3ba"ge. ; ; Hence vit is, I suppose, that 

 some persons have called it the Cabbage- 

 turnip. But the characteristics the most de 

 cidedly distinctive are these : that the outside 

 of the bulb of the Ruta Ruga is of a greenish 

 hue, mixed, towards the top, with a colour 

 bordering on a red ; and, that the inside of the 

 bulb, if the sort be true and pure, is of a deep 

 yellow ', nearly as deep as that of gold. 



Mode of saving and of preserving the Seed. 



31. This is rather a nice business, and should 

 be, by no means, executed in a negligent man 

 ner. For, on the well attending to this, much 

 of the seed depends : and, it is quite surprizing 

 how great losses are, in the end, frequently 

 sustained by the saving, in this part of the 

 business, of an hour's labour or attention. I, 

 one year, lost more than half of what would 

 have been an immense crop, by a mere piece of 

 negligence in my bailiff as to the seed ; and I 

 caused a similar loss to a gentleman in Berk 

 shire, who had his seed from the same parcel 

 that mine was taken, and who had sent many 

 miles for it> in order to have the best in the 

 world. 



32. The Ruta Baga is apt to degenerate, if 

 the seed be not saved with care. We, in 



