Carlisle Journal, 11 Nov 1815 - Natural History

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 11 Nov 1815   (p. 3, col. 3)

 

NOTICES IN NATURAL HISTORY.

 

Perhaps never was a season more productive than the present, in proof of which might be adduced the astonishing growth of vegetables, of different kinds, which have been noticed in this and preceding Journals.—Mr. NIXON, of Bow, we are informed, has grown turnips which weigh from 27lbs. to 28lbs. each, without the top; the circumference of one of which, on measurement, proved to be 3 ft. 6½ in.

 

A cabbage, grown by Mr. TWENTYMAN, of Hawkesdale, near Carlisle, weighed not less than 3st. 12lb. Several others of very large dimensions were also produced on the same ground.—They were of the species known by the name of the Drum-head.

 

Last week was pulled in the garden of Mr. T. JOHNSTON, of Etterby, near this city, a carrot which weighed 6½lbs., measured round the but 15 inches, and was four feet in length.

 

Mr. T. DRYDEN, of Etterby-Hill, had this year a number of potatoes, which, after being in the ground only 4 months and 5 days, weighed 2lbs. and 14 oz. each.

 

In a field belonging to Mr. John NELSON, of Whale, in Westmorland, a turnip was pulled weighing 32lbs. and measuring round about three feet four inches.

 

Mr. Robert KENDAL, of Hackthorpe, in same county, also grew a potatoe weighing 3lbs. 3oz.

 

We mentioned in our last paper, that the head and horns of a huge animal had been dug up in the Isle of Man. These anti-diluvian fragments, we understand, have been purchased for the British Museum: and it is said, that several other bones, of immense size, have been since found near the place where the original discovery was made.