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not so deeply sunk in the ground, and having the neck a greenish 

 colour. Its quality is good and it keeps well. 



Yellow Globe Turnip. An American variety, coming very 

 near the Yellow Dutch, but somewhat paler in colour and more 

 spherical in shape. 



Yellow Scotch Turnip. An early variety, with a spherical 

 or slightly flattened root, rather pale yellow in colour, and some- 

 times tinged with green at the neck. Root very clean skinned, 

 almost entirely sunk in the ground ; flesh pale yellow, tender, and 

 sugary. 



Yellow Tankard Turnip. An English variety, with an 

 elongated spindle-shaped root which is twice as long as broad, and 

 pale yellow, except at the neck, which projects slightly from the 

 ground and is greenish. Flesh pale yellow, close grained, and of 

 a mild flavour. Ripens early. 



UNICORN-PLANT 



Martynia, LindL Sesamacece. 

 French, Martynia. German, Gemsenhorner. 



The plants of this genus are tall, stout, vigorous annuals. 



Stem fleshy, i to if in. in diameter ; leaves large, heart-shaped, 



gray-green, and somewhat hairy ; flowers 

 large, resembling those of a Catalpa in 

 shape, and yellow or lilac, according to 

 the species ; fruit long, ovoid, curved, 

 and terminating in a long hooked point, 

 and enclosed in a soft green kind of 

 shell, which dries up when ripe, the 

 fruit then becoming woody and blackish, 

 and the extremity dividing into two 

 long crooked horns, as it opens to allow 

 the seed to escape ; seeds large, black, 

 with an irregular rough or shagreened 

 surface. Their germinating power lasts 

 for one or two years. 

 CULTURE. These plants require a good amount of heat, and 



it is advisable to sow the seed in a hot-bed and either allow the 



plants to complete their growth there or plant them out in good 



soil in a warm place. 



USES. The fruit, gathered while young and tender, is pickled 



in vinegar. It should be gathered when not more than half-grown, 



as, after that, it becomes too tough and leathery. 



The Yellow-flowered species (M. luted], is a native of Brazil, 



and is a plant- of moderate size, somewhat trailing in habit, and 



Unicorn-plant (\ natural size), 



