39 THE KITCHEN GARDENER. JJB. 3, 



SECTION XXV. 



TURNIPS, 



THE lighted foil in the garden is 

 generally beft adapted to their cul- 

 ture, and it Ihould alfo be well enriched, 

 If it is to be manured for the turnip crop, 

 compoft is preferable to fimples. In either 

 cafe, all the kinds of afhes, foot, and pi- 

 geon-dung, are to be avoided. Strong 

 loams, however, if not wet, are abundant- 

 ly productive of this vegetable, provided 

 they be well broke in the operation of 

 digging, trenching, fallowing, Sec. 



The firfl of March is foon enough to 

 fow, as we feldom fee plants fown fooner 

 come to any good ; they generally run to 

 feed and canker. A few may be fown on 

 an early border, but thefe are not much to 

 be depended on ; an open fituation being 

 the beft at all times of the feafon. 



For producing a conftant fucceffion, 

 make it a rule to fow fo foon as the la ft 

 appears- above ground ; and repeat this 

 till the firft of Auguft. The e^rly white 



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