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tember or beginning of October, and will carry the stock 

 on until the yellow varieties have completed their growth. 



The white Norfolk, or white round turnip, is a large, 

 irregular,-shaped, soft variety. It is more depressed at the 

 top than the foregoing, and more disposed to deteriorate at 

 the time of maturity. Like that, it is a heavy cropper, 

 and requires to be fed off early in the season. 



The Pomeranian is an improved variety of the white 

 globe. The shape is globular, less liable to depression at 

 the top, and consequently to injury from wet or weather. 

 The skin is fine and white, leaves smooth, and t>f a darker 

 green colour, with whitish nerves. 



The Stone Globe is one of the hardiest of the white 

 globe turnips. It grows deeper in the soil, has a stronger 

 and coarser skin, and is better able generally to resist the 

 effects of weather. In the south, if sown late, it stands 

 through the winter, and furnishes excellent and valuable 

 keep for the ewes at lambing time. 



The Stubble, or Autumn Turnip, offers the advantage of 

 arriving at maturity sooner than any other variet}^, and 

 thus may be sown in early districts after the fields are 

 cleared of the straw crops. From its rapid growth, it is 

 soft in texture, and low comparatively in nutritive value, 

 and requires to be fed off before the winter frosts com- 

 mence. It is a useful variety, however, to assist the keep 

 where the fly has taken the earlier sown varieties, or to 

 fill up blanks in the field where the first sowing may have 

 partially tailed. 



The Tankard varieties (oblonga) are generally less valu- 

 able than the globe (depressa). They naturally possess a 

 larger amount of surface, are more exposed above the 

 ground, and are in proportion more liable to injuries, both 

 natural and artificial. They are all early in their matu- 

 rity. Their yield is frequently large, and their quality 

 equal to the globe ; and they require to be consumed 



