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V. Some Infiances of the Very great and fpeedy Vege- 
tation o/TUR NIPS- Communicated by the 
^ey. Dr. J. Theoph. Defaguliers, (2^. S’. S'. 
A t Sutton Coldfield mWarmcklhire, a peaty Ground 
near a Pool ( of which ic was formerly a part) 
was fown with Turnip-Seed on the zd Day of 
Julf 1701. In lefs than Three Days Time the Turnips 
were feen above Ground. At Three Weeks end the 
Roots were in Bignefs equal to Walnuts. Within lefs 
than Five Weeks after the Sowing, the Gardener drew 
great Quantities of Turnips to fell, they then being 
as big as large Apples. At the end of Six Weeks, viz>, 
on the ixth Day of ^ugufl, a large Turnip was plucked 
up ( though probably not fo big as feveral others then 
growing upon the fame Ground ) which, together with 
its Top and long defcending part of the Root, weigh- 
ed above Two Pounds and Fourteen Ounces. At the 
fame time alfo was weighed an Ounce of the fame fort 
of Turnip'Seed, that the Gardener had fown his Ground 
with ; and afterwards a Thoufand of the Grains were 
counted fmgly out of the Ounce fo weighed ; and the 
reft of the Ounce was divided into Heaps, as near as 
could be guefled, equal to the 1000 Seeds firft fevered 
and laid together : And it was found that the whole 
Ounce contain’d above 14600 fingle Grains ; which 
Number multiplied by 46 ( viz. the Number of Oun- 
ces that the Turnip Weighed ) produceth 6yi,6oo,viz„ 
the Number of fingle Grains of Seed required to equal 
the Weight of the Turnip. From whence may be ga- 
thered, that ( upon fuppoGtion, that the Increafe of 
the Turnip was ail along uniform ^nd equal, from the 
Time 
