i-^6 TURNIPS/ ^ 



Sir^foRDAUNT Martin, of Burnham, a promising 

 crop. 



Last yenr Mr. Dursgate Iiad very fine Swedish tur- 

 nips, sowed in May : lie approves much of them. 



In Mr. Mackte's nursery, at Norwich, they are much 

 infested with inse6ls : a species of aphys. 



Turnip Cabbages. — More than 30 years ago, Mr. How- 

 MAN, of Bracon Ash, cuhivating this plant, observed that 

 those which were left in the seed bed, came to mucli the 

 larger sire. The same remark has been often made on 

 the great common cabbage. In consequence of that ob- 

 servation, 1 then recommended the pracSlice of sowing 

 caT)bages where they are to remain ; but know not that it 

 was adopted by any person except the late Mr. Bake- 

 well. 



1 6. Importance of the culture. — The general feature of 

 the wet districts of the kingdom, is that of cleaning land 

 which has become foul by tlie culture of white corn, by 

 means of a summer-fallow ; but in sandy and other dry 

 countries, and more especially in Norfolk, the same ob- 

 je(5^ is attained by the turnip husbandry ; and the great ad- 

 ditional advantage secured of supporting great flocks, and 

 herds of sheep aud cattle. The system is, at present, pret- 

 ty well known in most parts of the kingdom ; but no 

 ■where pradlised on such a scale and so universally as in 

 Norfolk. The difference between a barren fallow and 

 an ameliorating crop, which 'admits so much tillage 

 and successive hoeing, is generally known and ad- 

 mitted; and to expatiate on the importance of cattle and 

 sheep in manuring, would be idle; but (confining our- 

 selves to Norfolk) it merits inquiry, whether the practice, 

 so common, of cuhivating this crop on nearly all the soils 

 jn the county, whether sandy and dry, or heavy and wer. 



