COMMUNICATION, &c. 



THE great superiority of this root, as cultivated in 

 Guernsey and the neighbouring islands, to its produce in 

 Britain, the high reputation which it bears among the 

 farmers in those islands, and the very little knowledge of 

 it, which those of Britain seem to possess, have induced 

 me to lay before the Society, a short account of the methods 

 practised in its culture in Guernsey. 



I am inclined to think, that it will be found much more 

 worthy the attention of agriculturists, than has been 

 hitherto supposed, and that it will form a material and 

 valuable addition to the system of green crops, when it 

 shall become better known . 



But it is chiefly on account of thta power which it 

 possesses of resitting the injuries of frost, that I have 

 ventured to point it out as an object of attention to the 

 Caledonian Horticultural Society. The injury which the 

 green crops, commonly cultivated in the northern parts of 

 our island, suffer from this enemy, is such as to render it 

 highly desirable to find one which shall be exempt from, 

 the effects of winter. 



It has been hitherto, but generally and carelessly said, 

 and as if the fact was not well ascertained, that this root 

 did not suffer from frost. The unusually severe winter of 



