FOKAGE CROPS IN DENMARK 



it was bought. It was cultivated in the eighties in several 

 places in the district of Stevns, and is therefore known as Stevns 

 Barres. It has some inclination to develop the tankard form, 

 and may possibly be in some way related to the Eckendorf 

 mangel. The definition of the mangels which in Denmark are 

 known by the name of Barres is given by Helweg as follows : 

 A longish or oval-shaped orange- coloured mangel, length 

 generally a little more than double the width, the largest 

 diameter being found a little above the middle. The flesh is 

 white with a faint yellow tinge. The stalks of the leaves are 

 green, not yellow. 



How the many Danish strains, descended from these original 

 samples, have behaved at the Comparative Cultivations is fully 

 illustrated by a report of Helweg's in 1916, 1 which can be 

 usefully mentioned here, although it means anticipating some 

 results of the following years' competition to be dealt with 

 later on. He gives first a review of the total number of samples 

 entered for competition under the name of Barres during the 

 different years, classifying them according to their origin : 



It appears from the last column that some seed growers 

 entered samples as Barres which when grown were found not 

 to possess all the characteristics of a Barres. The last but one 

 column contains samples of unknown origin ; they may be of 

 British, French, or German origin, or crosses. It will be seen 

 that they gradually dwindle in number. The greatest interest 

 attaches to the samples of known origin, of which the first 

 column represents samples of Danish grown seed descended 

 from the Vilmorin Barres. The stock seed on which the growers 

 worked had in most cases been directly or indirectly derived 

 from the seed grown at the Koyal Agricultural College and 



1 Tideskrift for Planteavl, 23 vol., 1916, p. 313. 



