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AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

No. XLVI.] MAY, 1803. Vou. Wel.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE KOHLRABLI.. WITH A PLATE.;

To the Editor of the. Agricultural Magazine. Sir,

HIS invaluable Turnip, of which I herewith send you a

representation, and of which, I hope, your Artist will give an accurate Engraving, is,| believe, very little known in this country; but[ am convinced the more it is cultivated the more its advantages will be felt by all graziers. It with- stands frosts the most intense, as was proved this last winter in Mr. Curtis’s Botannical Garden, in Chelsea, where some of these plants weighed seven or eight pounds, and though many of them were notched and hacked on purpose for the experi= ment, yet the turnip remained perfectly sound and undamaged in any way by very severe weather, whilea bed of Swedish turnips, its neighbours, lay quite rotten. Its saccharine quali+ ties are equally remarkable, and both its leaves and its root, which have a flavour of artichoke bottoms, area very delicious vegetable for the table.

in a small German pamphlet upon Rural Economy, dated Leipsig, 1797, I find the plant mentioned as follows:

« XV. Linnean Class.—Kohlrabi, above the ground, Brassica gongylodes, with eatable root upon the stalk, of which there are two sorts,(Knollen) green and blue.’ Kohlrabi un- der the ground, Brassica Obracea, Napo Brassica, both are equally good as well for man as beast. In transplanting them, their root should be cut off about one-third, and care taken that they are planted sufficiently deep; by this curtailment of the tap root they grow to a much larger size, and avoid bee coming tough—the soil for them should not be too wet,”

The seed of this plant has been distributed to most of the principal gentlemen of this country, who so laudably turn their attention to rural concerns, and there is reason to be- lieve, that this year, there will be many acres of this very profitable vegetable raised in different parts of the kingdom, which is now to be sown, as cabbage seed, in beds, and trans- planted out in rows towards the 10th of June.

{ return you my thanks for the many useful hints I pick sup monthly from you yaluable Miscellany.

, I. remain, yours, ad A GENTLEMAN FARMER, Age Mag. Vol. 8, Xx