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 TURNIP. 



NAVET. Brassica rapa. 



Early Garden Stone. 

 Early White Dutch. 

 Swan's Egg. 

 Early Reef Top. 

 Strap Leaved Red Top. 

 Early GreeiiTop. 

 Yellow Stone. 

 Long Yellow French. 



VARIETIES. 



^ - Large English Norfolk. 



Long Tankard, or Hanover. 



White Flat, or Globe. 

 c. | Large Bullock. 

 ^ j Yellow Altringham. 



Dale's Yellow Hybrid. 



Yellow Aberdeen. 



Russia, Swedish, or Ruta Baga. 



THIS is a wholesome and useful plant, both for man and 

 beast, and highly deserving of cultivation. Its being the 

 last esculent vegetable on our catalogue, that is raised from 

 seed sold at our several seed stores, I shall endeavour to 

 stimulate those of our yeomanry who have hitherto neg- 

 lected the culture of this field as well as garden production, 

 to exertion and diligence, by inserting a few extracts from 

 a paper that now lies before me. 



" Culture of Turnips. Until the beginning of the eigh- 

 teenth century, this valuable root was cultivated only in 

 gardens, or other small spots, for culinary purposes ; but 

 Lord Town send, who attended King George the First in 

 one of his excursions to Germany, in the quality of Secre- 

 tary of State, observed the Turnip cultivated in open and 

 extensive fields, as fodder for cattle, and spreading fertility 

 over lands naturally barren, on his return to England, 

 brought over some of the seed, and strongly recommended 

 the practice which he had witnessed, to the adoption of his 

 own tenants, who occupied a soil similar to that of Hanover. 

 The experiment succeeded ; the cultivation of Field Tur- 

 nips gradually spread over the whole county of Norfolk, 

 and has made its way into every other district of England. 

 The reputation of the county as an agricultural district, 

 dates from the vast improvements of heaths, wastes, sheep 

 walks, and warrens, by enclosing and manuring ; the fruits 

 of the zealous exertions of Lord Townsend, and a few 

 neighbouring land owners, which were, ere long, imitated 

 by others. Since these improvements were effected, rents 



