ROUND OR FLAT TURNIP 



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instance, we shall often meet with similar varieties which only 

 differ from each other in the leaves being divided in the one kind 

 and entire in the other. This difference by itself is of no import- 

 ance, and is only noteworthy when 

 combined with some special recom- 

 mendation of earliness or good 

 quality. 



Early Red-top Flat Garden 

 Turnip. — The root of this variety is 

 of the same size and shape as that 

 of the Early White Flat Dutch 

 Garden Turnip, but differs from it 

 in the violet-pink colour of the upper 

 part. It is grown and used in exactly 

 the same way. In the east of France, 

 under the name of Navet a Collet 

 Rose de Nancy, a good form of this 

 variety is cultivated, which almost 

 resembles the Early Purple-top 

 Munich Turnip. 



Red-top Strap-leaved American 

 Stone Turnip. — A very flat variety, 

 and of very regular shape, differing 

 from the Early Flat Red-top Turnip 

 in having entire leaves, not lobed at the base, and also by being at 

 least four or five days earlier. The leaves are erect and stiff, and 

 as they are also rather short, this is a very suitable variety for 

 frame culture. It has also the merit of forming the roots freely, 

 even when grown in spring, and of being slower to run to seed than 

 most other Turnips. Yet, notwithstanding all these good qualities, 

 it is possible that the Purple-top Milan Turnip may, on account of 



its greater earliness, supersede 

 it to some extent for forcing 

 purposes. The present variety 

 is also often sown in the open 

 ground. It was raised in 

 America. 



Milan Purple-top Strap- 

 leaved Turnip. — This hand- 

 some variety is only a form 

 of the Red-Top Strap-leaved 

 American Turnip, but is so 

 distinct that it deserves a 

 separate notice. The root is small or medium-sized, very flat, quite 

 smooth, pure white on the underground part, and bright violet-red 

 on the upper part. The leaves, which are entire, rather erect, and 



Red-top Strap-leaved American 

 Stone Turnip (l- natural size). 



Milan Purple-topped Turnip. 



