192 KITCHEN GARDEN. 



The Turnip {Brassica Rapa), like the potato, has, 

 to a great extent, migrated into the fields, and become 

 the care of the husbandman more than of the gardener. 

 The following are the most esteemed garden sorts in 

 England : 



Early White Dutch. Yellow Maltese. 



Early Stone. Dutch Yellow. 



Green-topped White. ^Aberdeen Yellow. 

 Long White. ' Teltow. 



Besides these, the Navet of the French [Brassica 

 Wapus V, esoulenta) is occasionally cultivated, and more 

 frequently the Swedish Turnip or Rutabaga {Brassica 

 caynpestris v. Napo-hrassica, L.), which is a most excel- 

 lent winter sort, though it belongs more properly to the 

 farm. For early crops, the white Dutch is the princi- 

 pal variety ; the other white sorts, and the beautiful yel- 

 low Maltese, are useful in summer and in the beginning 

 of autumn. The yellow Dutch being capable of endur- 

 ing a considerable degree of frost, affords the most ap- 

 propriate winter supply. The teltow or French turnip 

 is remarkable for being high-flavored, and is used only 

 for seasoning to soups or stews. 



Turnips succeed best in- a rich, well-worked soil, of 

 a light or medium quality. The first sowing is made 

 about the end of March, in a warm situation ; and it is 

 usual to put in additional sowings, once a fortnight or 

 three weeks, till the end of August. The early crops 

 are sown broadcast^ and the later in drills about a foot 

 asunder. After the plants have shown a rough leaf or 

 two, they are thinned out, being left at the distance of 

 eight or ten inches in the drill ; and the ground is hoed 

 and kept free from Aveeds. A-s turnips which have stood 

 the winter throw up their seed-stalks early in spring, 



