The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 71
aring more the character of a cabbage than of a turnip,and very coarse and fibrous at the root. Such are what I call the old stock,the sort most commonly grown about here, and the seed of which was pro-duced from transplanted roots selected by a careful farmer. Now, what areMr. Fenns ? Certainly,… … form; and a comparison with fig. 25. will at once show their supe-riority. Here is no running to stalk, nothing of the mongrel about it; but around handsome bulb, with a roughish yellow skin like a melon, and of afine rich quality when cut into. An old labourer observed to me: — Lawk, Sir, what…
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