General Notices. 



stead of fij)/)fin<^ (as wc say) kiiuUy, wasting tlieir strength in endeavours 

 to form, not a bulb, but an unsiglitly and unprofitable stalk, as shown in 

 fig. 25.) : in fact, bearing more the character of a cabbage than of a turnip, 

 and very coarse and fibrous at the root. Sucli are what I call the old stock, 

 the sort most conmionly grown about here, and the seed of which was pro- 

 duced from trans[)lanted roots selected by a careful farmer. Now, what are 

 Mr. Feini's ? Certainly, the handsomest turnips of the sort lever yet saw ; 

 and if I said oi' am/ sort, I do not know I should be very wide of the mark. 

 1 have in the sketch i^g-^d.) endeavoured to give an idea of their general 



form ; and a comparison with fg. 25. will at once show their supc- 



rioritv. 



Here is no running to stalk, notliing of the mongrel about it ; but a 

 round handsome bulb, with a rougliish yellow skin like a melon, and of a 

 fine rich (|ualitv when cut into. An old labourer observed to me: — 

 " Lawk, Sir, wiiat beauties them new tannu|)s ilew grow, sure//V .' — why, 

 they look more liker a melon than a tannup. They haen't got no fifers 

 [fibres] at the roots, like them t'other." And the old man was right. 



" Look at this picture and on that." 

 One is comparatively clean and free from fibres, whilst the other is like an ash 

 tree in miniature. Of the comparative weight of the two cro|)s I should give 

 a decided preference to Mr. Fenu's; but, even were the w eight C(iual, I should 

 certainly grow the latter on account of their superior cjuality. It may be 

 said that 1 have caricatured mv likenesses; at any rate, that 1 have selected 

 the handsomest of one stock and the ugliest of the other ; but it is not so : 

 from Mr. Fenn's turnips I could have chosen thousands ecjualiy handsome; 

 from the others, thousands eciually ugly. One of his i)lants, I must remark 

 in conclusion, at this time measures 2 ft. 1 in. round the bulb : nor has it 

 vet attainetl its full size. They are a sight worth seemg, and ;u-e very di»- 

 fcrcnt from anv thing of the kind I ever i,aw before. 1 give you my name, 



