f)?^ TURNIPS. 



Mr. Henry Blythe, of Burnham, or his neighbourSf 

 cannot get any turnips wiihout manuring. 



Mr. DuRSGATE never foinid any inconvenience from 

 turnips being sown too often. At Sedgford he has often 

 had them two years together, and the second better than 

 the first. He does not admit, therefore, that land is sick 

 of tliem. 



Mr. Coke is clear, that at Holkham, if turnips are 

 sown oftenerthan in common, they fail, as the land is sick 

 of them. 



Mr. FowEL is clear that turnips Iiavc rotted much 

 more for the last lo years than they did 20 years ago, 

 which he supposes to be caused by a change in the seasons. 

 But he cannot by any means agree with those who assert 

 that the turnips in Norfolk are inferior to what they for-, 

 mcrly were, from long repetition ; he is clear that they 

 jire just as good as ever.* 



From these notes it appears, that opinions vary, and I 

 wish the reader to have tlie ideas of the farmers, rather 

 than any general notion of my own, formed from those 

 opinions — such might be erroneously given. I make it a 

 rule to let tlic county speak for Itself on every point. 



15. Swedish Turnips. — Mr. Walker, of Harpley, in 

 Norfolk, has cultivated them for some years, with great 

 success : generally has from 20 to 30 acres; feeds them ofF 

 with sheep and bullocks, and can depend on them, when 

 common turnips are all rotten. His crop in i8co, not- 

 withstanding the drought, was very fine. 



Mr. OvermAj^, of Burnham, had in i8cc a field of 

 tht4 plant, and among them a new-comer, the root some- 

 what resembhng th^ifi, but the leaf m.uch more like a 



* In the neigVibouring county, the Duke of Grafton has made the same 

 observation. Turnips were cultivated at Eusfon as early as at Rainham, yet 

 His Grace is clear, iliai for the l^st 40 or 50 years they have jiot declined »% 



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