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plant shoots again repeatedly : In spring, however, 

 when the ground is wanted, and the plants are dis- 

 posed to run, they should be drawn. Spinach will 

 transplant in autumn, and thus produce the best 

 seed. 



TURNEP we have a variety^of sorts of, for table 

 use, differing in colour and shape, earliness and fla- 

 vour. The most common are the white sorts ; but 

 the yellow and red are worthy of trial, particularly 

 the former. The small early white Dutch is that 

 mostly cultivated in gardens, at least for the first 

 crops, though the early stone sort is a very good 

 root. 



Turneps are sown from March to September, but 

 in June and July for the principal crops. Iate 

 crops may be sown till Mid-August, but they will 

 produce but little bottoms. Those sown in March 

 will be apt to run for seed before they have formed 

 much bottom, and must be watched to draw them in 

 time. The turnep is so favourite a vegetable, that 

 hot-beds are sometimes made in February and March 

 to forward it, though thus cultivated, it can attain 

 but to a very small size. A bed of this sort must be 

 slight, and have a great deal of air from the very 

 sowing. A moderately ligBt soil, with little dung, 

 suits turneps best, and they should always have open 

 ground that is well broke. Mix the seed with a 

 little fine earth, sow thin, trample close, and rake 

 lightly : It is a way with some, to sow one third old 

 seed with the new, for the greater certainty of a crop, 

 the former sometimes succeeding when the latter 

 misses. Do not neglect to hoe the crops in time, 

 the early ones to five or six inches, and the late ones 

 to eight or nine, though some large sorts should have 

 more distance allowed. 



When the fly is observed to attack young turneps, 

 it will be proper to stir the ground, and sow again 



