TURNIP-ROOTED CABBAGE (SWEDISH TURNIP) 169 



in France, the Purple-top 

 Swede is most in favour. 

 Of this there are a great 

 many forms, the most note- 

 worthy of which are the 

 Skirving, the Champion, 

 Banghohn, Imperial, Hall's 

 Westbury, and West Nor- 

 folk, all of which are to be 

 recommended for the great 

 size and very regular form 

 of their almost perfectly 

 spherical roots ; the newer 

 variety Monarch {syns. 

 Elephant, Mammoth, 

 Tankard), with an oval 

 root ; also Laing's variety, 

 which has an equally large 

 and well-shaped root, and 

 is especially distinguished 

 by having the leaves entire. 

 It is altogether owing to 

 much grown in France as 



Oval Swedish Turnip. 



Yellow Purple-top Swedish Turnip (| natural size). 



the climate that Swedes are not so 

 they are in England. Hot, dry 

 summer weather is unfavour- 

 able to this plant, which does 

 best in a climate that is 

 rather moist, and bears frost 

 well. In Brittany, where the 

 climate is nearly the same 

 as that of England, Swedes 

 are very extensively grown 

 and do well. 



The Drummond, East 

 Lothian, Bangholm, Im- 

 perial, Hall's Westbury, West 

 Norfolk, Shamrock Purple- 

 top Swedes, the Fettercairn 

 - Green-top Swede, and the 

 ■; Shepherd's Golden Globe 

 Bronze-top Swede differ but 

 little from the preceding 

 varieties. 



Hartley's Bronze-top 

 Swede, oval in shape and 

 short in the collar, is largely 

 cultivated in Canada. 



