28o T U R N E P S. 33. 



With refpeft to the fibres or rootlings, this is 

 a juft inference; but with refpedt to the ^/^/i*, 

 it is in great meafpjre erroneous. For a few 

 generations the fize of the bulb will keep paqc 

 with the increafe of leaves and fibres ; but after 

 having once reached the limits, which nature 

 has fet to its magnitude, it begins to revert 

 to its original ftate of wildnefs, from which 

 to its prefent ftate it has, beyond difpute, been 

 raifed by tranfplantation. 



The farmer has therefore two extremes, both 

 of which he ought to endeavour to avoid. The 

 one is difcoverable by the thicknefs and coarfe- 

 nefs of the neck, the fcaley roughnefs of the 

 top of the bulb, the thicknefs of the rind in 

 general, the foulnefs of its bottom, and the 

 forkednefs of its main or tap-root : the other, 

 by the flenderncfs of the neck, the finenefs of 

 the leaves, and the delicacy of the root. The 

 former are unpalatable to cattle, and are there- 

 by creative of wafte : the latter are unprodu£tive ; 

 are difficult to be drawn ; and do not throw out 

 fuch ample tops in the fpring, as do thofe which 

 are, by conftitution or habit, in a middle ftatc 

 between thofe two extremes. 



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