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turnip-rooted cabbage, and I am well convinced It 

 is the moft profitable and ceconomical of any ufage 

 in pradlice. 



It may, perhaps, be thought by fome too labori- 

 ous and expenfive, but if they would make the ex- 

 periment, they would foon be convinced of the, 

 contrary. A dexterous labourer would fet a large 

 piece of ground in a day, and when fet they would 

 be done with, all but weeding; for being planted at 

 due and regular diftances, the whole of the opera- 

 tion at once is finifhed. But if the feeds are fown 

 or dropt, the plants muft be fet out to a proper 

 diftance, which would be found to be as expenfive 

 as tranfplanting, and the ground by no means fo 

 clean and in fuch perfedt condition as it mufl be 

 made for tranfplanting. The difficult queflion is, 

 whether the roots of the tranfplanted would be 

 equally fine with thofe which had never been re- 

 moved. This, from fome obfervations I have 

 made, feems to depend albch upon the age and fize 

 of the plants when they are removed. The root in 

 its firft growth pretty much refcmbles the carrot, 

 and if it be drawn when not above three or at moft 

 four inches long, and the hole in which it is to be 

 planted be made deep enough to receive it without 

 bending or diftorting it, the root will receive no in- 



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