When used, it should not be
peeled. It bears transplanting well; and may be set in rows one foot
apart, and nine inches apart in the rows.

WAITE'S HYBRID ECLIPSE.

A recent variety, of English origin, introduced by Mr. John G. Waite, a
seed-merchant of London. As figured and described, it is of large size,
very richly colored, and remarkably smooth and symmetrical. At the
crown, it is broad and round-shouldered, and measures about six inches
in diameter; which size is nearly retained to a depth of eight or nine
inches, when it contracts in a conical form to a tap-root. Color of
upper portion, clear purple, richly clouded, and contrasting finely with
the yellow on the lower part. It is represented as a turnip of excellent
quality, and as being very productive.

When cultivated in this country, it has generally fallen short of the
excellence it is represented as attaining in England. It is apparently
not adapted to the dry and warm summers of the United States.

WHITE GLOBE. _Law._

Common Field Globe.

Root globular; skin smooth, perfectly white; flesh also white; neck and
tap-root small. Although this description embraces the principal
characters of the White Globe, there is considerable variety in the
turnips to which this name is applied, arising from the degree of care
and attention bestowed by growers in selecting their seed-roots; and the
shape is often not a little affected by the soil in which they are
grown. Thus Globes of any kind, and particularly those of this variety,
when grown on a very superior, rich soil, may be said to be forced
beyond their natural size, and thereby acquire somewhat of a monstrous
or overgrown appearance; losing, in a great measure, their natural
symmetry.

This variety is better adapted to field culture than to the garden, as
it is altogether too coarse in texture for table use. It is a poor
keeper, and, in unfavorable seasons, sometimes decays before the time of
harvesting. Specimens have been grown weighing fifteen and even eighteen
pounds.

WHITE NORFOLK.

White Round.

A large English variety, somewhat irregular in form, but usually more or
less compressed, and sometimes pyriform; the upper portion of the root
being produced four or five inches above ground. Specimens sometimes
measure ten or twelve inches in diameter. The leaves are large, and
rather numerous; the skin white below the surface, and often white
above, but sometimes washed with green; flesh whi