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yellow, and hybrid varieties, Mr. Haxton also gives us the 

 following valuable tabulated results. 1 The specified varie- 

 ties " were sown on medium black soft land, situated on 

 ' trap/ and were manured with farmyard dung, and treated 

 precisely in the same manner in every respect/' 



Varieties. Weight per Acre. 



tons. cwts. qrs. Ibs. 



Aberdeen Green-top Yellow, 16 16 3 22 



Hood's Imperial Green-top Yellow, 18 2 1 17 



Gordon's Green-top, 19 2 2 5 



Dale's Hybrid Yellow, 17 17 3 21 



Laurencekirk Tankard Green-top Yellow, 22 202 



Common Purple-top Yellow, 20 12 1 16 



Berwickshire '... 19 7 1 8 



Common White Globe, 27 13 6 



White Stone Globe, 29 19 3 25 



White Round, 25 7 2 25 



White Tankard 25 16 11 



Green-top Globe, 20 19 3 5 



Green-top Tankard, 21 320 



Green-top Round, 16 7 22 



Red-top Globe, 20 19 8 5 



Red Round, 21 3 2 



Red Tankard, 21 3 2 



Woolton Hybrid, 21 17 9 



The soils best suited for the cultivation of turnips are 

 unquestionably those of a free- working, loamy character, 

 in which the most suitable conditions, chemical as well as 

 mechanical, for the growth of the plant, are met with. 

 In the lightest description of soils, those proceeding from 

 the silicious beds of the several sandstone formations, the 

 mechanical condition, so far as the division of the particles 

 is concerned, is met with to the greatest extent; and in 

 the heaviest description of soils, those proceeding from the 

 clay beds of the argillaceous formations, the chemical con- 

 ditions exist in the most favourable proportions. Between 



1 These results must only be taken for what they are really worth, as the soil 

 in which they were all grown was no doubt much better adapted to one or 

 more varieties than to the others, whose produce in a more congenial soil might 

 have quite reversed the figures now given. 



