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The root is nearly twice as broad as deep, and is often irregular in 

 shape. 



Early Chantenay Turnip. — This very much resembles the 

 Chirk Castle Black Turnip, like which it has the root tolerably 

 flattened, but is not so deeply coloured, being more gray than 

 black. 



Early Snowball Turnip. — An early kind, with a globular or 

 slightly flattened root of a pure white colour. It differs from the 

 Early Stone Turnip in having no green colouring around the neck. 



Gray Flat Russian Turnip. — Root tolerably flattened, fully 

 one-third broader than deep, with an iron-gray skin marked trans- 

 versely with whitish lines. A hardy variety, but not superior to 

 the Chirk Castle Black Turnip. 



Gray Luc Turnip.— A small dry-fleshed Turnip, with a long 

 root, tolerably like the Freneuse Turnip, but with the skin some- 

 what more wrinkled and grayish. 



Gray Saulieu Turnip. — Root spindle-shaped, resembling that 

 of a half-long pointed Carrot, four times as long as broad ; skin 

 gray, somewhat wrinkled ; flesh firm, dry, sugary, and slightly 

 yellow. 



Green-top Six-weeks' Turnip. — Root flattened, fully a third 

 broader than deep, often growing to a considerable size, white on 

 the underground part and green at the neck ; flesh white, tender, 

 sugary, and rather firm. Ripens early. 



Malteau Turnip. — Root elongated, of a long ovoid shape, 

 shorter and thicker than that of the Freneuse Turnip, which it 

 resembles in its leaves and in the texture of the flesh of the root, 

 which is very dry and firm. A good variety, and still prett}' largely 

 grown in the vicinity of Paris. 



Nancy Flat Purple-top Turnip. — A handsome form of the 

 Early Flat Purple-top Turnip, remarkable for its earliness, the 



regularity of its shape, and the 

 very deep colour of the upper 

 part of the root. It hardly differs 

 from the Munich Turnip, which 

 even surpasses it in earliness. 



Petrosowodsk's Purple 

 Turnip. — A violet - coloured 

 variety of the Finland Turnip, 

 ^ , . , ^ . and similar in shape, having the 



Purple-top Munich 1 urnip. i j j • • 



^ same marked depression m the 



under-part of the root around the tap-root. The leaves are 

 sometimes lyrate and sometimes entire. 



Purple-top Munich Turnip. — Remarkably early, resembling in 

 shape and size the Early Flat Red-top Turnip, but violet in colour, 

 deepening to purple in the part above ground. 



