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each of them fupply by their bufhy tops in the 

 fpring; — that the Mowing Cabbage feems better 

 calculated for culinary ufes, than for cattle i — and 

 that the Cow Cabbages, to pay the greateft profit, 

 fhould certainly be all fpent before Chriflmas. 



Of the juftice of all the above hints, I will not 

 prefume ablblutely to vouch, but that they have 

 appeared in fuch a light to me, I will venture t© 

 fayj and as the fole defign of this letter is but o 

 invite better and fuller information -, if that end be 

 obtained by it, it will not have proved quite ufelefs, 

 although it Ihould be thought not void of miftakcs, 



I am. Sir, 

 With great regard, your's, 



THOMAS .BEEVOR. 

 Helbel, March i, 1792. 



• N. B. Gn the ftrongeft part of the foil they have, with me, 

 grovm the largeft, to upwards of four pounds each ; and contrary, 

 I think, to the common turnips, they rot univerlally from the tap^ 

 root upwards, fo that all of them above ground appear and prove 

 to be quite found, and uninjured by the froft, whilft almoft all the 

 part in the earth is quite decayed, and a mere pulp. 



Obibrvation. The iveigbt of this plant, as JIaUd by SirTbomas, 

 nvefindto be far below tbe a'verage 'weighty produced on thefrongefi 

 lands in other parti of tbe kingdom. 



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