ti4 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



fage, penny-royal, purflain, forrel, lettice, fpinnage, endive, 

 crefTes, charvil, dill, fennel, and cummin, the laft growing wild, 

 efpecially in Nordenfield ; accordingly it has no place in gardens, 

 increasing fpontaneoufly to fuch quantities, that from Chriftiania, 

 it is exported abroad. Our gardens likewife furnifh us with all 

 kinds of roots, as yellow, red, and common carrots, parfnips, 

 radifhes, potatoes, together with a particular kind of northern 

 turnips called Naper, which the peafants endeavour to raife 

 more than any 1 - other, and fell by tuns in the cities. Thefe are 

 fometimes very large, and as flat as a dim. A man of veracity 

 has afliired me, that not many years fince, he had in his garden 

 one of thefe Napers, weighing twenty-feven pounds. They 

 keep bell in the little hillocks to be met with among the 

 fwamps, where they continue entirely frefh, even fo late as 

 fpring time. 



In order to forward the growth of certain vegetables, where 

 the fummers are fhort, the example of burgo-mafter Jurgens of- 

 Drontheim, is recommended to imitation in the above-mentioned 

 Horti Cultura, p. 23. This gentleman, at harveft time, fet in his 

 garden at his ieat of Harli, feveral plants, which might be fown 

 early in the fpring, but which being covered by the mow during 

 winter, were alive, and very forward in fpring. But this method, 

 however advifeable in the inland parts of the country, will not 

 hold good in the maritime parts, for want of fuch kiting fnows, 

 the winters here being rather wet than cold. 



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