ng bulb, formed by the
swelling of the stem. This is dressed and eaten with sauce or with meat,
as turnips usually are. While young, the flesh is tender and delicate,
possessing the combined flavor of the cabbage and turnip.

They are said to keep better than any other bulb, and to be sweeter and
more nutritious than the cabbage or white turnip. "In the north of
France, they are extensively grown for feeding cattle,--a purpose for
which they seem admirably adapted, as, from having a taste similar to
the leaves of others of the species, they are found not to impart any of
that peculiar, disagreeable taste to the milk, which it acquires when
cows are fed on turnips."

_Varieties._--These are as follow:--

ARTICHOKE-LEAVED. _Thomp._ _Vil._

Cut-leaved.

Of German origin, deriving its name from the resemblance of the leaves
to those of the Artichoke. Bulb small, and not smooth or symmetrical.
The leaves are beautifully cut, and are very ornamental; but the bulb is
comparatively of little value. Not much cultivated.

EARLY DWARF WHITE. _Vil._

Bulb white, smaller than that of the Common White, and supported close
to the ground. The leaves are also smaller, and less numerous.

It is earlier, and finer in texture, than the last named; and, while
young, excellent for the table.

Transplant in rows fifteen inches apart, and ten inches asunder in the
rows.

EARLY PURPLE VIENNA. _Thomp._ _Vil._

This corresponds with the Early White Vienna, except in color, which, in
this variety, is a beautiful purple, with a fine glaucous bloom. The
leaf-stems are very slender, and the leaves smooth, and few in number.

These two Vienna sorts are by far the best for table use. When taken
young, and properly dressed, they form an excellent substitute for
turnips, especially in dry seasons, when a crop of the latter may fail
or become of inferior quality.

EARLY WHITE VIENNA. _Thomp._

Dwarf, small, early; bulb handsome, firm, glossy, white, or very
pale-green. The leaves are few, small, with slender stems, the bases of
which are dilated, and thin where they spring from different parts on
the surface of the bulb. The flesh is white, tender, and succulent,
whilst the bulb is young, or till it attains the size of an early white
Dutch turnip; and at or under this size it should be used.

Set the plants in rows fifteen inches apart, and ten inches from plant
to plant in the lines.

GREEN.

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