. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 178 BRASSICA BRASSICA BB. Jjvs. {except upon fhe flower-stem) thin and green; fls. smaller and bright yellow, less prominently clawed. c Plant potentially biennial {that is, the root hard and thickened, often distinctly tuberous): foliage firm in texture. j>. Foliage distinctly hairy. Bapa, Linn. Common Turn
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 178 BRASSICA BRASSICA BB. Jjvs. {except upon fhe flower-stem) thin and green; fls. smaller and bright yellow, less prominently clawed. c Plant potentially biennial {that is, the root hard and thickened, often distinctly tuberous): foliage firm in texture. j>. Foliage distinctly hairy. Bapa, Linn. Common Turnip. Lvs. prominently lyrate or interrupted below,the root tuberous. — WhateTer the origin of the Rutabaga and Turnip may be, the two plants show good botanical characters. The tubers of the two are different in season, texture and flavor. In the Rutabaga, the small leaves immediately following the seed-leaves are sparsely hairy, but all subsequent leaves are entirely smooth, densely glaucous-blue, thick and cabbage-like, with a fleshy petiole and midrib. In the Turnip, the radical leaves are always more or less hairy, and they are green and radish-like, thin, with slender petiole, and the leaves are much more lyrate, with interrupted leaflets on the petiole; the small leaves following the seed-leaves are also thinner and narrower and more deeply scalloped. In the Rutabaga, the flow- ers are large and more cabbage-like, whereas in the Turnip they are small, yellow and mustard-like, with shorter claws and more spreading calyx. The Turnips vary in hairiness, but the cone of expanding leaves, or the "heart-leaves," always shows the hairs distinctly, while the heart-leaves of the Rutabagas are entirely gla- feathered petioles, sharply and irregularly toothed, with a thin bloom : beak of the pod more abrupt: root dis- tinctly hard and tuberous. —This vegetable appeared in France in 1882 from seeds sent by Dr. Bretschneider, of the Russian legation, Pekin. It was offered
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