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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



White Smooth Swedish Turnip 

 natural size). 



green. This is especially a kitchen-garden variety, and is con- 

 siderably earlier than any of the preceding kinds, so that it can be 



sown up to July. The flesh of the 

 root is white. 



White Early Strap-leaf Swedish 

 Turnip. — Root almost spherical and 

 generally well-shaped ; the under- 

 ground portion white, the upper 

 part greenish or bronze-coloured ; 

 neck very fine, leaves rather small 

 in comparison with the size of the 

 root, broad, oval or rounded and 

 entire. The flesh of this Swede 

 is very white, tender, and agree- 

 able to the taste, specially if used 

 before the root has attained its full 

 Sj^^^^^ size. 



Green-top Swedish Turnip. — 

 Root round, with a yellow skin, 

 deeply tinged with green on the 

 part over-ground, and especially around the neck. Flesh yellow. 



A variety which is almost the same as the Green-top Swede is 

 found in the United States 

 under the name oi American 

 Green-top Yellow Rutabaga. 

 It only differs from the other 

 in having its leaves slightly 

 twisted and almost curled. 



Under the name of Fiii- 

 la?id Water-radish a plant 

 used to be cultivated which 

 did not appreciably differ 

 from this, or, at the most, was 

 only a form of it in which the 

 root was slightly flattened. 



Yellow Purple - top 

 Swedish Turnip.— This 

 variety only differs from the 

 preceding one in the root 

 being a purplish red colour 

 above - ground. In Great 

 Britain, where Swedish 

 Turnips are grown on a 



very large scale, and take mite Early Strap-leaf Swedish Turnip. 



almost the same place in 



field culture which the varieties of Mangold-Wurzel occupy 



