TURNIP-ROOTED CABBAGE (SWEDISH TURNIP) 169 



in France, the Purple-top 



Swede is most in favour. 



Of this there are a great 



many forms, the most note- 

 worthy of which are the 



Skirving, the Champion, 



Bangholm, Imperial, Hall's 



Westbury, and West Nor- 

 folk, all of which are to be 



recommended for the great 



size and very regular form 



of their almost perfectly 



spherical roots ; the newer 



variety Monarch (syns. 



Elephant, Mammoth, 



Tankard), with an oval 



root ; also Laing's variety, 



which has an equally large 



and well-shaped root, and ^ 



is especially distinguished Yellow p^^^ Swedish Turnip (i natura i size) . 



by having the leaves entire. 



It is altogether owing to the climate that Swedes are not so 



much grown in France as they are in England. Hot, dry 



summer weather is unfavour- 

 able to this plant, which does 

 best in a climate that is 

 rather moist, and bears frost 

 well. In Brittany, where the 

 climate is nearly the same 

 as that of England, Swedes 

 are very extensively grown 

 and do well. 



The Drummond, East 

 Lothian, Bangholm, Im- 

 perial, Hall's Westbury, West 

 Norfolk, Shamrock Purple- 

 top Swedes, the Fettercairn 

 Green-top Swede, and the 

 Shepherd's Golden Globe 

 Bronze-top Swede differ but 

 little from the preceding 

 varieties. 



Hartley's Bronze-top 

 Swede, oval in shape and 

 short in the collar, is largely 

 Oval Swedish Turnip. cultivated in Canada. 



