H4 NATURAL HIS TO R Y ? of NORWAY. 



fage, penny-royal, purflain, Torre], lettice, fpinnage, endive, 

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

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

 mcreafmg 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 other, and fell by tuns in the cities. Thefe are 

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

 has aflured me, that not many years iince, he had in his garden 

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

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

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

 ipring time. 



In order to forward the growth of certain vegetables, where 

 the fummers are ihort, the example of burgo-mafter J ur gens 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 feat of Harli, feveral plants, which might be Town 

 early in the fpring, but which being covered by the fnow 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 mch lafting fnows, 

 the winters here being rather wet than cold. 





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