103 ESCULENT ROOTS. 



or carrot shape, terminating abruptly at the point ; skin pale 

 yellow ; flesh yellow, firm, dry, and sugary, with some de- 

 gree of piquancy. It is a good variety for the table, and 

 also a good keeper. 



Snow-Ball. The bulb of this variety is nearly spherical, 



NAVET BOULE 



DK NEIGE. viL smooth and regular ; size medium, the average 

 dimensions being four inches in diameter, four and a half in 

 depth, and the weight about a pound. The neck is small, 

 and the skin white. The flesh of the young bulbs is white, 

 fine-grained, tender, and sugary ; but, if overgrown or long 

 kept, it is liable to become dry and spongy. 



The variety is early, and, though classed by seedsmen as a 

 garden turnip, is well adapted for field culture ; as it not only 

 yields abundantly, but succeeds well when sown late in the 

 season on land from which early crops have been harvested. 



Stone Globe. Bulb globular, and regularly formed, growing 

 mostly beneath the surface of the ground. It belongs to the 

 White-globe varieties, and is considered the hardiest and the 

 best suited for winter use of any of its class. The leaves 

 are larger, stronger, and deeper colored, than any of the 

 White-globe sorts. 



Skin and flesh white ; texture moderately close ; flavor 

 sweet, and its keeping properties good ; size rather large. 



Teltow, or This is said to be the smallest of turnips ; its 

 Small Berlin. 



TELTAU. leaves not exceeding in number those ot the 



radish. The root is fusiform or spindle-shaped, not very 

 regular, and produced entirely under ground ; skin dusky 

 white ; flesh dry, dull white, fine-grained, piquant, and 

 sugary ; leaves erect, yellowish-green. Early. The roots 

 measure three inches long by about an inch and three 

 fourths at their largest diameter, and weigh from three 

 to four ounces. 



