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supply. The new Dwarf Prolific is about the 

 best variety. 



Fall turnips are so easily grown that they require 

 but few words. They are valuable vegetables for 

 utilizing space in the garden after early crops, as 

 peas, beans, potatoes, etc., are removed The seed 

 of ruta-baga, or Swedish turnips, should be planted 

 earliest, from the twentieth of June to the tenth 

 of July in our latitude. This turnip should be 

 sown in drills two feet apart, and the plants 

 thinned to eight inches from one another. It is 

 very hardy, and the roots are close-grained, solid, 

 and equally good for the table and the family 

 cow. The Yellow Aberdeen is another excellent 

 variety, which may be sown early in July, and 

 treated much the same as the foregoing. The 

 Yellow Stone can be sown on good ground until 

 the fifteenth of July in any good garden soil, 

 and the plants thinned to six inches apart It is 

 perhaps the most satisfactory of all the turnip 

 tribe both for table use and stock. The Red-top 

 Strap-leaf may be sown anywhere until the tenth 

 of August. It is a general custom, in the middle 

 of July, to scatter some seed of this hardy vari- 

 ety among the corn : hoe it in lightly, and there 

 is usually a good crop. Every vacant spot may be 

 utilized by incurring only the slight cost of the 

 seed and the sowing. It may be well, perhaps to 



