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referve for the greate/t exigence of thofe who may 
have been provident enough to fecure it;—it ishoped 
that it would experience a more general trial, than 
has hitherto been afforded it, and that (prejudice 
therein removed by conviction) it would be as gene- 
rally fought after and adopted. And it is further 
wifhed, that fome one will ere long be able to give 
an experimental and detailed account of the Ruta- 
baga, or Swedifh turnip; the writer not having had 
fufficient experience to authorife him in the attempt. 
He however conceives, that it is originally of the 
fame fpecies, or nearly, with the above, and that 
their difference rather confifts in the habits* of each, 
than in aught befides; one being brought from a 
clime lefs diftant from the pole than the other, may 
probably be commenfurately more backward in the 
* That habits govern as arbitrarily in the vegetable as in the ani- 
mal world, needs only infpecting the fubje&t to-be convinced of, 
From inftances univerfally difplayed, may be felected that, unalter- ° 
ably prevalent, in the Lauruftinus fhrub, originally derived, as Ihave 
been informed, from the Cape of Good Hope; which, although it 
thay have continued to be propagated here by the various modes of 
cuttings, laying, feeds, &c. probably during a century, ftill tenaci- 
oufly and invariably retains its original and determinate periods for 
the rifing and defeent ofits fap; and whofe action, at its greateft 
height, accordingly produces flowers here in great profufion at 
Chriftmas, although its native latitude lies 17 degrees nearer the 
fine than ourfelves. ‘The pofitionallowed, and exigencies requiring 
_ better ceconomy, one would furely think it a laughable fufpenfion of 
the mental faculties not to difcern, and an unpardonable inconfiftency 
and negligence of the human powers not to avail ourfelves of it, as 
_ weadily as of any other known property of vegetables, 
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