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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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may be ploughed, harrowed, and sown, each succeeding 
day, until the whole of the field has been sown, except 
that portion whereon the corn is left to dry. When 
the corn is ready for carting to the stack, proceed as 
! quickly as possible to clear the field, and sow the 
remaining portion of the land with Turnips. 
Those who have never tried the plan of ploughing 
and sowing the land between the rows of corn in stook, 
may be disposed to think it it is not worth doing, but 
having adopted the plan myself for some years past, the 
result has been that the portion of land sown before the 
carting of the corn, has, invariably, produced double the 
weight of Turnips, although the difference in the time of 
sowing has not been more than from seven to nine 
days. 
When the land is dry, the portion first ploughed is 
softer and kinder, requiring but little labour to produce 
a fine and favourable tilth, so essential to the quick 
growth of the Turnip plant; the remaining portion, of a 
dry season, having been exposed to the sun and wind 
ior eight or nine days before the removal of the corn, 
becomes hard, and requires more labour to reduce it 
fine enough for seeding. 
I would observe, that the latest period at which 
Turnips may be sown as a stubble crop, with any 
chance of a useful produce, is about the 14th of August. 
This, however, applies to the eastern and southern 
counties of England, for this crop is hardly worth notice 
in the northern counties, and in bleak and exposed 
situations. 
In manuring for stubble Turnips, the use of super¬ 
phosphate is most desirable, its effect being notorious 
for inducing quick growth, and early maturity. Two 
cwt. of this manure, per acre, is a fair quantity, but one 
cwt. of Peruvian, or Bolivian guano, per acre, in ad¬ 
dition, with about twenty bushels of ashes, may be 
used, if the land requires it. 
It has been said that so unimportant a crop will not 
repay such an application of manures as I have here 
recommended; but it must be remembered, that it is a 
preparatory crop, and, therefore, whether succeeded by 
a crop of Barley, or other grain, this would receive the 
lull benefit of any extra application of manure as well 
as the Turnip crop. 
Turnips sown at this late period ought, of course, to 
be drilled at a less distance between the rows than all 
the early sowings; horse-hoeing being scarcely required, 
the rows may be placed at fourteen inches apart, and 
the plants set out at ten inches in the rows. It is, 
j however, advisable, when this crop is sown unusually 
, late, and intended lor feeding late in the spring, to sow 
the seed broadcast; and in this case, the best manure 
is two hundredweight of guano per acre, sown broadcast 
also, and harrowed in; the plants in this case should 
be left very thick when hoed ; it is sometimes best not 
to hoe them at all, but to constantly thin-out the plants 
by the use of drag or harrow. When the weather is 
very dry, and the seed not likely to vegetate regularly, 
it is best to use the water-drill; and I am inclined to 
believe that it would be the most advantageous mode 
August II. 
of drilling, under any circumstances, for this late crop. 
In selecting a sort of Turnips for sowing after a crop 
of corn, it is most important to procure a quick-growing, 
yet hardy, variety, which throws plenty of leaf, and is 
of early maturity. 
It is unnecessary to sow more than two pounds of 
seed per acre, for the fiy, wireworm, and grub, hardly 
ever attack the plants at so late a period of the season. 
The only enemy of any consequence to contend with, 
is the small white slug, and the best thing to stop its 
ravages is an application of lime sown over the field, 
occasionally, early in the morning, or late in the evening. 
Two bushels per acre are sufficient for each appli¬ 
cation. Joseph Blundell. 
SEA WEEDS.—No. 6. 
( Continued from, page 350.) 
ORDER 4.—DICTYOLACE/E. 
“ Olive-coloured, inarticulate Sea Weeds, whose spores 
are superficial, disposed in definite spots or lines.”— Harvey. 
1. GUTLERIA. 
“Root a mass of woolly filaments; frond flat, veinless, 
somewhat fan-shaped, irregularly cleft; fructification minute 
tufts of capsules, pedicellate, containing several distinct 
granules. Named Cattend in honour of Miss Cutler, a 
distinguished British algologist.” 
Cutleria multifida (Much-Cut).—'“ On rocks and shells 
in deep water. Rare. Very rare in Scotland. Dredged in 
Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran.” 
2. HALISERIS. 
“ Frond flat, linear, membranaceous, with a mid-rib; root 
a mass of woolly filaments; fruit ovate seeds, forming dis¬ 
tinct sori or groups, mostly arranged in longitudinal lines, j 
Named from two Greek words, signifying the sea and 
endive.”— Greville . 
]. Hai.isf.ris polypodioides (rolypodium-like). — “On 
rocks and stones in the sea. South of England ; West and 
South of Ireland. Colour brownish - olive. Smell, when 
fresh gathered, very powerful and offensive.” 
3. BADINA. 
“ Root coated with woolly fibres; frond flat, rib-less, fan¬ 
shaped, marked at regular distances with concentric lines, 
fringed with articulate filaments, the apex involute; fructi¬ 
fication linear, concentric sori, bursting through the cuticle 
of the upper surface of the frond, consisting, at maturity, 
of numerous obovate spores, fixed by their bases, each 
spore containing four sporules. Name invented by Adan- 
son, who has not explained its meaning.”— Harvey. 
