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Root Crops 



weeks' longer time in which to mature. It is not raised as 

 a spring vegetable. 



Eutabaga differs from the turnip in having a denser and 

 mostly yellow-fleshed root, which is rounded or elongated 

 and not distinctly flat, the leaves glaucous-blue and not 

 hairy, the crown long and leafy, 

 the roots arising from the under 

 side of the tuber as well as from 



characteristic form of flat 



turnip (X %)■ Rutabaga (X 1/B)- 



9d. Forms of turnip and rutabaga. 



the taproot. Compare the roots in Pig. 90. It is a richer 

 vegetable than the turnip. It is grown either as a spring 

 or autumn crop. As in the case of the turnip, the product 

 grown for stock, is raised from summer-sown seeds. For 

 the main crop, the seeds are usually sown as early as the 

 first of July or the middle part of June in the Northern 

 States. 



