CHINA. 1751, 313 



Chinese cabbage^, is very like our white 

 cabbage. Among all the cabbages which we 

 bought for our fhip I did not fee one head but 

 they were all in flower. This makes me doubt 

 whether the white cabbage, which in our 

 country requires more than one year before 

 it arrives to fructification, may not by the 

 warmth of this country blofibm the firfl year, 

 inflead of forming heads. 



Celery and Spinage, which is here called 

 Boat-fay. 



Convolvulus reptans, by the Chinefe called 

 Or-fay, was fold to our men inftead of fpin« 

 age, but is, in regard to genus, totally differ- 

 ent from the true fpinage. This creeping 

 Convolvulus grows fpontaneoufly every where, 

 in ditches, and low places : of the true fpinage 

 I only faw the feeds. We daily eat of the 

 new fafhioned fpinage, without fuffering the 

 lead inconvenience. This may give us a hint 

 to make ufe of our common Convolvulus in the 



* Brajfica Chinenf.s or as the Chinefe call it Kay-lann '. 

 the leaves of the calyx are alternately narrower. Another 

 fort, which the Chinefe call Pack-fc-a, with a bulbofe roof, 

 is fold here like wife, 



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