F336. j 
Dr. Cullen, author of the Materia Medica, has 
in that publication fallen into the fame error: with 
myfelf. Ata late period, fubfequent to my former 
_ communication refpecting it, he fpeaks of it asa 
new thing, not yet known in this country. His 
account of the plant is a very favourable, and, I 
think, a very, juft one. But his acquaintance with 
it had reached no further than as with a delicacy 
for his table. 
In the year 1791, 1 planted out between 4 and 
5000 of thefe plants into a field, on the top of a hill, 
on a thin, worn-out, ftone-brafh foil. The ground 
was dragged down to a level; fome furrows ftruck 
at about three feet diftance, and a little dung fhook 
into the furrows, which were afterwards clofed with 
a plough. ‘The firft dripping day the plants were 
put out, at about two feet diftance in the rows. 
They took root very readily, and continued to thrive 
well, notwithftanding the feafon was very dry. 
Thefe plants bore the winter, which was rather a 
fevere one, very well, though many turnips on the 
adjoining land were deftroyed. In the {pring they 
were for the moft part given to the fheep, which 
have always appeared to be very fond of them. 
Part of them were faved for feed, which ripened 
and were cut about the middle of July. The land 
upon which thofe that were given to the fheep grew, _ 
as well as the turnip land, was fown to barley ; but 
the former did not appear to be at all exhaufted; 
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