Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-24
FARM AND GARDEN.
FALL ruRNrps ANp cARRAGEs

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Between July 25 and Christmas are
five months of great Importance In our
Southern climate and agriculture. In
the cool climate of Scotland, much of
which is too cold for wheat to get
ripe, turnip seed, by careful expert
ment, gained fifteen thousand nine
hundred and ninety times its weight
every "a hours from the time it was
planted till the turnip was matured.
1t takes between fifteen and sixteen
thousand turnip seeds to weigh an
ounce, and turnips have been raised Of
between twenty and thirty pounds. In
the time of Pliny, and for unknown
ages before, turnips were dried and
preserved as food forman and beastthe
year round.
Before the invention of sour-krout,
cabbages cut up and dried, like apples
and peaches in our time, gave primitive
Europeans an excellent vegetable. The
turnip, cabbage, kale and rape (the
brassica family are indigenous on the
island of Great Britain and the ada
cent continent, and fourIshed in pre-
historic times. OF course. we know
nothing about what was done In Eu-
ropean cabbage-culture before the time
of old Homer, and Hesiod wrote his
Works and Days" yet Dutch and
German civilization, so conspicuous
now, and the Brassica belong to the
same soil and climate and are parts of
the same vital phenomena.
If we admire Grecian and Roman IN
tellect and achievements, we should not
refuse to consider the part played by
organized phosphorus, sulphur and nj
trogen in turnips and cabbages, as
brain and muscle food for man. Not
long after a wolf sucked Romulus and
Remus. the founders Of Rome, the
taleHs told for history, that the sagac-
ious Romans expatriated their physi-
clans by the use of cabbage, and pre-
served their health during six hundred
years. Both the Greeks and Romans
eat the raw leaves Of cabbage as a pre-
ventive and alienation of the effects of
intoxication. PEney says: Il dwell
long on this vegetable because 1t is IN
so great request in the kitchen and
among our riotous gluttOns.'
Broccoli and caulifower were intro
duced from Cyprus at an early day, but
it would fill "a volume to trace properly
the connection of rich broccoli from
a salt-marsh and a Greek brain, the
best type of humanity. Our simple
purpose is to suggest the wisdom Of
raising fair crops Of fall turnips and
cabbages, because it will contribute to
health and comfort. Human blood
formed largely from cornbread is much
improved by adding elements derived
from turnips and cabbages.
All Will admit that the formation o
healthy blood, brain, nerve, bone ant
muscle, is a matter Of the first import
ance. The vitalized molecules in |
cabbage seed probably do not weigl
more than the thousandth part of tn
weight Of the seed, yet this point 0
life develops a plant with very SINAI
labor to man, which runs bis thinkini
machine for days, as well as the organ
that breathe, circulate the blood an
till the ground.
The original vital force in EuroPea
turnip ard cabbage seed has been in
proved generally by thirty centuries
cultivation. Buy this force, and Sc
what you can make of it by Christina
using your best skill and industry. I
careful not TO over-seed the groun
you SOW or plant, and make 1t as nc
as YOU well can. We assume that a
know how to raise turnips and cal
bages, which it must be admitted, hOy
ever, is not altogether the case.