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THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 



Anbury is an affection to which only the different 

 sorts of turnips are liable, in which case it differs 

 from finger-and-toe, with which it has been very 

 much confounded, as this latter occurs in all kinds of 

 roots ; namely, turnips, carrots, mangel-wurzel, &c, 

 as well as both the common and Swedish turnips. 



As a sample of an ex- 

 treme case of finger-and- 

 toe — digitate root, — we re- 

 peat the following figure 

 of a Belgian carrot, in 

 which it will be seen that 

 the forks gradually taper 

 to the extremities; in fact, 

 the whole, instead of being 

 a succulent fleshy tap or 

 fusiform root, in which case 

 it could readily be stored, 

 is divided in fingers- 

 and-toes, which are liable 

 to break off, and this ren- 

 ders the product next to 

 useless. Now, this affec- 

 tion may occur in any 

 soil, as it is the result of 

 a degeneracy in the stock 

 of the plant ; but in the 

 affection now to be de- 

 scribed the case is wholly 

 different, as here the bulk 



. 8 repeated). 



Fig. 11 (Fi 

 Finger-and-toe Carrot. 



Half natural size. 



of the swede (fig. 12) is affected with rough, can- 



