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APPENDIX. 



MANGOLDS. 



In the course of recent examinations as to the nature of stores long 

 left undisturbed in the upper story of an old house, near Naseby in 

 Northamptonshire, the researches brought to light many numbers of 

 an agricultural journal, published weekly early in the present century. 

 Some numbers of this paper, Evans and Euffey's ' Farmer's Journal 

 and Agricultural Advertiser,' were placed in my hands by the kindness 

 of a friend, and proved of much interest from the mass of agricultural 

 record, including weekly returns of market prices, and good corre- 

 spondence on agricultural topics. But amongst the notices of root 

 crops, the observatioiis on method of cultivation of Mangolds, then 

 recently introduced into this country, suggest one or two points 

 which, in the gradual change to the more correct principles of growing 

 of the present day, may coincidently bear on the increase of leaf 

 maggot during the last twenty years. 



The first introduction of Mangolds as a field crop into this country 

 is variously ascribed by different writers to Thos. Boothby Parkins in 

 1786, and to Dr. Lettsom in the year 1790, or thereabouts; but from 

 the correspondence and advertisements, &c., given in the number for 

 April 8th, 1816, it is evident that the growing of Mangolds was then 

 being pushed forward into notice, under leading agricultural influence, 

 against much opposition. 



In the number above quoted we have an advertisement of Mangel 

 Wurzel seed at 2s. 6f/. the lb., being procurable from Messrs. Gibbs, 

 " Seedsmen to the Honourable Board of Agriculture." Seed was also 

 procurable at 3s. the lb., or 2s. 6d. the lb. in large quantities, from 

 Mr. Geo. Lindley, of the Catton Nurseries near Norwich, another 

 important centre ; and a specially carefully saved kind was procurable 

 from Leonard Phillips, proprietor of a large Nursery and Agricultural 

 Experimental Establishment, Portsmouth Road, near Vauxhall, 

 " adjoining the two-mile stone from Westminster Bridge." 



This seed was 5s. the lb., but Mr. Leonard Phillips appears to have 

 been the leading man in working forward acceptance of the new crop, 

 as we find that the Society of London for the Encouragement of Arts, 



