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the seed plant (particularly mangel wurzel), cannct work 

 its way out of the ground. Most Swedish turnips run 

 loo much to top, and produce many worthless fangs 

 at the root. By getting, a few years ago, seed from 

 Sweden, I have got a kind that produces a small top, 

 with a tap root only ; and having widely circulated my 

 seed, the Thorpeland Swedes are well known in many 

 distant counties. Each year 1 sow a small quantity of any 

 sort well spoken of, but have not yet pet with any I like so 

 well as my own ; the tops of which coming up weaker, 

 they do not seem at first to promise so well for a crop as 

 the coarser kind, and besides which the fly has more power 

 on them. The fly is not one-tenth part so troublesome in 

 spme parts of England as it is in others. I am informed 

 that in the north they are not much troubled with it ; and 

 from personal observation I know they are not on the coast 

 of Norfolk and Suffolk ; the cold blasts from the Great 

 Northern Ocean do not suit them. I am inclined to 

 believe that the sea fogs, so common on those coasts, are a 

 benefit to the turnips grown there. There are few persons 

 take the trouble of being so particular as I am in raising 

 Swedish turnip seed. I superintend the selection, and see 

 that not one turnip is planted that has run out of shape. 

 And to prevent any inoculation by bees when they are in 

 flower, I will not suffer any thing of the turnip or cabbage 

 tribe to run to seed in my kitchen garden, although it is 

 500 yards from where my seed is growing. When it is 

 raised near a village, there is no security against inocu- 

 lation. My ridged crop of Swedish turnips is this year 

 unusually small, but I think I may without presumption 

 say, I believe, that there is not to be seen at this time 

 (August 31), a finer or cleaner crop. To show the 

 difference between the crops, I had some drilled on a flat 

 surface, nnd as I well knew, the ridges will certainly 

 produce much the greatest weight per acre. By having 

 nearly twice as many turnips on the flat as on the ridges, 

 it might be supposed that a greater weight might be 

 produced. I have tried the two ways, both sown at the 

 same time, and found the ridged turnips so much larger, 

 that they produced the greatest weight per acre. A 

 Swedish turnip is doubled in weight by a small increase 



