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Article XLI. 

 On the Turnip-Cabbage, 



[By the Same.] 

 Sir, 



TN reply to your queries refpeding the turnip^ 

 cabbage, I mud obferve, that as the moft efTen- 

 tial part of my experiments on that plant, viz, its 

 value in field culture, remains yet to be made^ and 

 as I purpofe ((hould it fucceed in that refpedt) to 

 give the publick a feparate and minute account of 

 it; I can at prefent ftate only a few general fads 

 refpeding itj and this I (hall do as nearly in the 

 order of your queries as poffible. 



I have not been able to afcertain in what coun- 

 try it was firft produced, but, am informed that it 

 is very common in Holland, and at the Cape of 

 Good-Hope. It has certainly been known in Bri- 

 tain many years, though not generally. Miller 

 does not notice it, but it is particularly mentioned 

 in the lift of efculent plants at the end of the oclavo 

 edition of " Every Man his own Gardener,'* by 

 Mawe .2ind others, publifhed in 17763 and it is 

 there efpecially diftinguifhed from the turnip- rooted 

 cabbage, to which it bears little or no refemblance. 

 It bears a much greater refemblance to the cab- 

 bage 



