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of a turnip called the Haftings Turnip, which he 

 fays a gentleman near Bath has cultivated in his 

 garden, and of which the account is very flattering. 

 If it be found to be fufficiently produ6tive to ferve 

 as a crop for cattle, hardy enough to refill froft, and 

 enduring late in the fpring, I (hall think myfelf 

 greatly obliged if you would procure and fend me 

 a few feeds of it ; and when the winter is pafled, I 

 will communicate to you what opinions I fhall have 

 formed of the value of the Roota Baga plants for 

 the purpofes of huft)andry. 



I am. Sir, yours, &c. 



THOMAS BEEVOR. 



*^it* The Soqety has not yet received any very particular 

 or authenticated accounts of the value of the Mowing Cab- 

 bage % but for general information, as well as to gratify the 

 curioilty of their valued corrcfpondent Sir Thomas Beevor^ 

 they v;ill be glad to receive from any quarter frefh accounts 

 of thofe who have fown it. The Roota- Baga is a plant 

 from wliich gre?t expectations are formed, both as a vege- 

 table for tiie table, (in which refpect Sir Thomas's opinion is 

 generally agreed in ) and as an article of food for cattle. Little 

 doubt can be formed of its being hardier than the turnip ; — 

 and its greater fweetnefs and folidity muft give it a preference 

 in the efteem of many perfons. We hope to be able in our 

 next volame to give a fuller account of it, 



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