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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
GARDEN TURNIPS. 
DANIELS’ IMPROVED SNOWBALL. Iicduzrd from a Photograph 
yellow-fleshed varieties. 
por 01. — 0. 
DANIELS’ GOLDEN GEM. A distinot variety. The top ia email 
and neat ; the roots are very handsome, with very fine tap-root. 
The skin and flesh are of a rioh golden-yellow, and of excellent 
quality • • P er P int 3s - 
GOLDEN BALL. Fine stock ™ per pint Is. 6d. 
ORANGE JELLY. Fine for late sowing - per pint la. 6d. 
ORANGE RED-TOP. Red top and golden yellow flesh 
Cultivation. This most wholesome vegetable is a lover of moisture, 
and to be crisp and juioy (as it should be) must be grown quiokly and not 
checked in its growth. Choose good rioh soil whioh has been dug over 
some time previously, and if possible, in a slightly shady position, as during 
the Summer monthB Turnips become stringy and hard if exposed to the 
h0t For the first crop sow Daniels’ “Snowball” on a very warm border 
early in March, and a succession of varieties onwards until July. Thin 
out tho plants when in the seed leaf, leaving the single roots twelve inches 
apart. Give occasional dustings with wood ash and soot in the early 
morning to ward off the deadly lurnip fly. ..... 
For Autumn and Winter use sow in August and September either broad- 
cast or in rows. Keep the hoe going and all weeds cleared off to hasten 
the growth and ensure crisp tender roots. 
T am .endin'' you Card for you to see I had tho honour to be the winner of the 
Cup for three years running, thanks to the good Seeds which you supplied me with. — 
Mr. G. DYERl Blackwater. 
SALSAFY. 
per oz. — s. d. 
SANDWICH ISLAND MAMMOTH. Splendid variety per pkt. fid. 1 6 
COMMON ... 8d - 0 9 
WHITE-FLESHED VARIETIES. 
per oz. — s. d. 
DANIELS’ IMPROVED SNOWBALL. An early and 
distinct variety of perfect shape, having only a single 
tap root. It is small, very solid, sweet and crisp, and 
of remarkably quick growth, flesh snow white and 
juicy, one of the very best for exhibition purposes, 
having obtained numerous first prizes per pint 2s. 
DANIELS’ GREEN TOP STONE. One of the most 
useful varieties for late sowing, being very hardy will 
stand well into the Winter. The roots are of splendid 
shape, and the flesh firm, crisp, and juicy per pint Is. 6d. 
EARLY WHITE MILAN. Of similar shape and quality to the Red- 
top Milan, quite as early, but pure white in colour . . 
CHIRK CASTLE (Black Stone). Very hardy, one of the most useful 
varieties for Winter 
EARLY MILAN RED-TOP. One of the earliest varieties in culti- 
vation, roots flat, of medium sixe and quite smooth. First- 
Olass Certificate, Royal Horticultural Society per pint, la. fid. 0 
EARLY WHITE STRAP-LEAVED. One of the earliest grown . . 0 
EARLY WHITE STONE, or DUTCH SIX WEEKS per pint Is. 0 
SCARLET GEM. This is quite distinot; in shape, round and 
flat, the colour is a rioh glowing soarlet ; top small and neat ; 
flesh white and of excellent flavour 
0 6 - 
0 4 
0 6 
0 6 
4 
4 
2- 
VEITCH’S RED GLOBE. Useful variety 
per pint Is. fid. 0 
fi 
4 
DANIELS' GREEN TOP STONE. 
SCORZONERA. 
RUSSIAN IMPROVED 
COMMON.. 
per oz. — s. d. 
per pkt. 4d, 1 0 
3d. 0 0 
Cultivation — Salsafv is a vegetable whioh deserves to be more grown, as it has quite a rich and distinot flavour. Being a deep rooting plant, it 
t hire wed worked land The seed should be sown early in May in drills about fifteen inohes apart, and the plants thinned out to about nine inches 
rthe row H specimen roots are deshed for exhibition, they may be grown in holes made by a crowbar and filled with fine sod as recommended for 
Parsnips and Beitroot ; a liberal supply of water should be given in dry weather and the soil kept loose between the rows by hoeing during the 
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