The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . top, give the preference to the old sort. (fg. 25.) But his opinion wouldchange on closer examination: he would find the plants of this stock, in- General Notices. stead of fij)/)fin<^ (as wc say) kiiuUy, wasting tlieir strength in endeavoursto form, not a bulb, but an unsiglitly and unprofitable stalk, as shown infig. 25.) : in fact, bearing more the character of a cabbage than of a turnip,and very coarse and fibrous at the root. Sucli are what I call the old stock,the sort most conmionly grown about here, and the seed
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . top, give the preference to the old sort. (fg. 25.) But his opinion wouldchange on closer examination: he would find the plants of this stock, in- General Notices. stead of fij)/)fin<^ (as wc say) kiiuUy, wasting tlieir strength in endeavoursto form, not a bulb, but an unsiglitly and unprofitable stalk, as shown infig. 25.) : in fact, bearing more the character of a cabbage than of a turnip,and very coarse and fibrous at the root. Sucli are what I call the old stock,the sort most conmionly grown about here, and the seed of which was pro-duced from trans[)lanted roots selected by a careful farmer. Now, what areMr. Feinis ? Certainly, the handsomest turnips of the sort lever yet saw ;and if I said oi am/ sort, I do not know I should be very wide of the have in the sketch i^g-^d.) endeavoured to give an idea of their general. form; and a comparison with fg. 25. will at once show their supc- rioritv. Here is no running to stalk, notliing of the mongrel about it ; but around handsome bulb, with a rougliish yellow skin like a melon, and of afine rich (|ualitv when cut into. An old labourer observed to me: — Lawk, Sir, wiiat beauties them new tannu|)s ilew grow, sure//V . — why,they look more liker a melon than a tannup. They haent got no fifers[fibres] at the roots, like them tother. And the old man was right. Look at this picture and on is comparatively clean and free from fibres, whilst the other is like an ashtree in miniature. Of the comparative weight of the two cro|)s I should givea decided preference to Mr. Fenus; but, even were the w eight C(iual, I shouldcertainly grow the latter on account of their superior cjuality. It may besaid that 1 have caricatured mv likenesses; at any rate, that 1 have selectedthe handsomest of one stock and the ugliest of the other ; but it is not so:from Mr. F
Size: 1519px × 1644px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade18, booksubjectgardening, bookyear1826
