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top, has not the round shape peculiar to the White Turnip 

 Radish, but is turbinated, or pear-shaped, having the appear- 

 ance of degeneracy. 



Miller, in the eighth edition of his Dictionary, calls the 

 Turnip Radish, the RapJianus rotundus, Round-rooted Ra- 

 dish, or Small Round-rooted Naples Radish. He says that 

 it was not very common in England at that time (1768), but 

 that it was the only sort cultivated in many parts of Italy. 

 Though he described only one kind, he speaks of other 

 Round-rooted Radishes, which were seldom cultivated in 

 England : what these were, cannot be ascertained ; they might 

 have been supposed to be the Winter Radishes, had he not 

 noticed those sorts afterwards. I apprehend the coloured 

 turnip Radishes have originated since his time ; it is, there- 

 fore, probable that he alluded only to sub-varieties of the 

 White Turnip Radish. I believe Miller is correct, in call- 

 ing the White Turnip Radish the Naples Radish, though 

 that name appears now to be transferred to the Long White 

 Radish. 



The Pink, Rose-coloured, Scarlet, and Crimson Turnip Ra- 

 dishes, are all one sort, which originated in France, (where 

 it is called the Radis Rouge ou Rose rond) some years since ; 

 it was introduced into this country about 1802, and is now 

 very common with us, especially in the .market gardens of 

 the metropolis. It comes in at the same time as the White 

 Turnip Radish ; its leaves are large, and spread wide ; the 

 root, externally, is a fine deep scarlet, and internally white, 

 though I have seen the flesh, which is mild and good, occa- 

 sionally a little stained with pink, and the sort which M. Vil- 

 morin calls the Radis Rose rond hdtif is quite rose-coloured 

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