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thereon (greatly obfcured by errors of the prefs) 
having appeared in the firft two volumes of their 
tranfactions, wherein, by implication, the trial of it 
was recommended to the inhabitants of our fifter 
kingdom north of the Tweed; it will be in point 
here to.obferve, that the next year a fpirited trial 
accordingly took place there; and in the fubfequent 
volume of the Tranfaétions is given the following 
account of it:—‘* We made a fair trial of the turnip- 
** rooted cabbage at Cullen-Houfe laft year; they 
§* fucceeded beyond expeétation, and there are as 
*¢ many feeds of them preferved this feafon as would 
** fow a whole county. ITintend to fend a confidera- 
** ble quantity to Sir R. Ramsay.and Mr. Bar- 
*¢ cLay, of Ury, together with the two volumes of 
*€ the Tranfactions of the Society, inftituted at Lon- 
«© don, for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, 
*¢ and Commerce; in which the directions for cul- 
** tivating them are contained, Icannot entertain a 
* doubt of their fupplying the want of {pring food 
*‘ after the turnips are exhaufted. The fheep eat 
*¢ them greedily, preferring them to every other fort 
“ of food. The roots in general weighed from 
* eight to ten pounds; a few of them more,” 
That the natives of Scotland at large are more 
attentive to improvements, and all ufeful difcoveries, 
than ourfelves, where their interefts are concerned, 
will be thought no new obfervation; however, al- 
though it does not appear that they have yet difco- 
vered, 
