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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



White Smooth Swedish Turnip 

 (\ natural size). 



green. This is especially a kitchen-garden variety, and is con- 

 siderably earlier than any of the preceding kinds, so that it can be 



sown up to July. The flesh of the 

 root is white. 



White Early Strap-leaf Swedish 

 Turnip. Root almost spherical and 

 generally well-shaped ; the under- 

 ground portion white, the upper 

 part greenish or bronze-coloured : 

 neck very fine, leaves rather small 

 in comparison with the size of the 

 root, broad, oval or rounded and 

 entire. The flesh of this Swede 

 is very white, tender, and agree- 

 able to the taste, specially if used 

 before the root has attained its full 

 size. 



Green-top Swedish Turnip. 

 Root round, with a yellow skin, 

 deeply tinged with green on the 



part over-ground, and especially around the neck. Flesh yellow. 

 A variety which is almost the same as the Green-top Swede is 



found in the United States 



under the name of American 



Green-top Yellow Rutabaga. 



It only differs from the other 



in having its leaves slightly 



twisted and almost curled. 



Under the name of Fin- 

 land Water-radish a plant 



used to be cultivated which 



did not appreciably differ 



from this, or, at the most, was 



only a form of it in which the 



root was slightly flattened. 

 Yellow Purple - top 



Swedish Turnip. This 



variety only differs from the 



preceding one in the root 



being a purplish red colour 



above - ground. In Great 



Britain, where Swedish 



Turnips are grown on a 



very large scale, and take 



almost the same place in 



field culture which the varieties of Mangold-Wurzel occupy 



White Early Strap-leaf Swedish Turnip. 



