196 T U R N £ P S* 



VI. The HOING of Turneps has not 

 yet found its way into the ordinary practice 

 of the Difl:ri(^. In Autumn,- the Turnep 

 grounds are as yellow, as Muftard Fields 

 in May ; and, in winter, as white with the 

 Opened pods of the Charlock, as flubbles 

 in Autumn : the filvery pods and withered 

 bra:nches of the weeds, fhading and nearly 

 hiding the green tops of the Turneps : 

 not in the immediate Diftrid: of the Nation 

 only J but in other parts of the County. 

 This phenomenon flruck me mod forcibly 

 in travelling between Exeter andPlymouthy 

 in the latter end of December 1791. 



Many individuals, it is true, attempt to 

 draw the weeds, hy hand ; piling them, in 

 heaps, upon the ground. But the whole 

 crop, I apprehend, is rarely if ever got 

 through, in this way. And what is done^ 

 is probably done at a much greater expencc,- 

 thaa hoing would have incurred, 



VII. The EXPENDITURE of Tur- 

 neps is. judicious. They are chiefly drawn, 

 and tlarown upon ley grounds, to cattic^ 



and 



