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of which Dr. Lettfom publifhed my report to him 
in the Gentleman’s Magazine, for January or Fe- 
bruary 1789: it was intended only to fee whether it 
was materially different from any of the beets to be 
then bought in the London feed-fhops, of which 
there is now no doubt; but I apprehend attention 
to felecting proper roots to fave feed from, is the 
great point in promoting the future cultivation of 
it. For partial as I am to it, if I cannot procure 
crops of it, which will chiefly rife above the furface 
of the foil, like the: long pudding turnip, I fhall 
greatly abate in my prefent hopes of it. I do not 
wonder that every body condemns it, who has 
only feen fuch as have grown with the crown clofe 
to the ground, and fent out large forked roots. 
This, efpecially in a ftiff foil, muft be an infur- 
mountable objection, and may ultimately prove to 
be in the nature of fome foils, or remediable by 
fome mode of culture. 
My crop of the year 1788, having been produced 
from little more than a thimble-full of feed, was 
chiefly diftributed to perfons who applied to me for 
roots to fave feed from. In the year 1789, I fowed 
about an acre with feed procured from Dr. Lettfom. 
I kept one {mall hog fix weeks, in a place which I 
pafled fo frequently, that I muft have feen if my 
yardman had given it any other food; and for a 
fortnight before it was killed, it was fed with boiled 
potatges, with the proportion of a quarter of a peck 
of 
