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for its beautiful orange shape and colour and thin 

 skin, is much to be recommended. The slug and 

 some fly are troublesome ; but sow thick that there 

 may be enough for all; and make frequent use of 

 the hoe, which both annoys the enemy and delights 

 the young plants. Successive sowings may be made 

 throughout the summer till near the end of July, 

 when the ground, after potatoes or peas, (in the 

 latter case requiring a little manure,) may be econo- 

 mically employed in raising a large and valuable 

 turnip crop for the winter and spring. Too much 

 strength of soil for autumn growth, when the season 

 itself does so much, is injudicious, as the turnip gets 

 cleft in the root and becomes unwholesome. 



The Swedish turnip, of excellent use in husbandry, 

 is scarcely an acquisition to the garden, as it rarely 

 grows without strings, and as the yellow Dutch, 

 which is more palatable, stands the frost sufficiently 

 well. The young leaves of the winter crop, which 

 begin to unfold in March, are extensively used as a 

 market vegetable in the south of England, and are 

 really good though their flavour is scarcely known to 

 the northern inhabitants. It is to be observed, 

 however, that such sprouts quickly deteriorate the 

 bulbs, a few only of which ought to be left in the 

 ground for yielding a supply of greens. The spring 

 growth may be checked, and the turnip preserved a 

 little longer in good condition, by storing amidst dry 

 sand on the cellar floor, or by deep pitting in a dry 

 soil. 



For winter use the turnip is never so good as 

 when freshly taken from the ground though not 

 growing, yet in a state ready to grow. A moderate 



