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a general panacea for all our complaints! However, 
to fuppofe this, or any other matter for the purpofe, 
may be obtained, without duly attending to their na- 
ture and properties, would furely be as abfurd as to 
expect the fame of any other plant (nearly all origi- 
nally of foreign extraction) we have condefcended to 
adopt, and have now under culture; and accordingly, 
and with as rational views of fuccefs, might our 
turnips, barlies, &c. be fown at Michaelmas, and our 
wheats at the beginning of April; as to treat the 
plant in queftion, both with regard to its culture and 
expenditure, in the way frequently done, and of 
which the writer has too often been a difgufted 
eye-witnefs. 
Although faéts would always fpeak for themfelves, 
and the turnip-rooted cabbage, properly treated, has 
always been found competent to every neceflary 
purpofe, (the writer having, after twenty years un- 
interrupted experience, never found a fair prattitio- 
ner hardyenough to affert the contrary; )and although 
he dares take upon himfelf to affert, that there is not 
an article in the whole range of plants, cultivated 
for the fupport of farming ftock, (its field room 
confidered) of equal importance; yet, too true it 
is, that hitherto it has been moftly confidered as an 
off-fcouring article—a matter to be attended to only. « 
when nothing elfe can be found for employment. 
Thus, a fimilar tardinefs and remif{nefs having pre- 
vailed, we have it on record, that the common tur- 
nip, 
