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choofe to cultivate them, by a due degree of atten- 

 tion and care. I fhall beg leave here to mention a 

 few common and well-known facts, in confirmation 

 of thefe remarks. 



There are two kinds of cabbages very obvioufly 

 diftinguifhable from each other, the red and the 

 white. ■ It is well known that-if either of thefe kinds 

 be cultivated in a diftrict where none of the other 

 is raifed, no plants but of that kind will ever be 

 obtained from the feeds there produced. No per- 

 fon who inhabits a part of the country where red 

 cabbages are never brought to feed, ever faw a red 

 cabbage plant raifed from feeds of his own faving, 

 nor the reverfe. But it is alfo a fact equally well 

 known, that if both white and red cabbages are 

 reared in the fame diftrict, it is impoffible, without 

 very great precautions indeed, to keep the two kinds 

 diilinct, if an attempt be made to rear them from 

 feeds of their own faving. The plants raifed from 

 feeds of the white cabbages become in this cafe, if 

 nearly an equal proportion of each be faved, tinged 

 with red veins, and thofe of the red become in fome 

 degree white, fo that nothing but a mongrel breed, 

 neither true red nor true white, can be obtained. 

 If the proportion of one kind far exceed the pro- 

 portion of the other, the kind of which there are 

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