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husk on. This fruit is used to thicken stews and 

 soups, and great quantities are sold in London. It 

 is raised from seed only, being an annual ; and the 

 seed should be sown at a great distance, seeing that 

 the plants occupy a good deal of room. 



271. TURNIP. It is useless to attempt to raise 

 them by sowing in the spring : they are never good 

 till the fall. The sorts of Turnips are numerous, 

 but, for a garden, it is quite sufficient to notice 

 three ; the early white, the fiat yellow, and the 

 Swedish, or Rutabaga, which last is a very differ- 

 ent plant indeed from the other two. The two for- 

 mer sorts should be sown about the end of July, in 

 rows (in a garden) two feet apart, and thinned out 

 to a foot distance in the rows. Good and deep hoe- 

 ing and one digging should take place during their 

 growth ; for, a large turnip of the same age is bet- 

 ter, weight for weight, than a small one, just as the 

 largest apples, or peaches, growing upon the same 

 tree, are better than the small ones growing on it 

 the same year. The Swedish turnip, so generally 

 preferred for table use here, and so seldom used for 

 the table in England, ought to be sown early in 

 June, in rows at a foot apart and thinned to three 

 inches in the rows. About the middle of July they 

 ought to be transplanted upon ridges three fee 



part (in a garden,) and during their growth, ough' 

 .o be kept clean, and to be dug between twice at 

 least, as deep as a good spade can be made to go. 

 As to the preserving of turnips during the winter, 

 follow precisely the direc'iions given for the pre- 

 serving of Beets. See Beet. But the Swedish 

 Turnip is of further use as producing most excel- 



ent greens in the spring, and at a very early sea- 

 son. To draw this benefit from them, the best way 

 is, te leave a row o^ two in the ground, and, when 

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