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I conclude from thefe circumftances, that they 
might be ufed to great advantage as a vegetable 
fea-ftore; and that they would afford a moit whole- 
fome and agreeable food for failors through long 
voyages, at a time when every other frefh vegetable 
was entirely {poiled. 
A neighbour of mine intended to have claimed 
the premium this year, for the cultivation of this 
plant: but unfortunately, more than two parts in 
three of his crop have been deftroyed by the under- 
ground grub. My crop has likewife fuffered much 
from this caufe, but not in fo great a degree as my 
neighbour’s. 
In planting out two acres this year, I left about 
a fourth of the land undunged, the reft was well 
manured with rotten ftable dung. To my great 
furprize, I found that thofe which were planted 
without dung throve quite as well as thofe planted 
in the manured part of the field. The land wasa 
worn-out wheat ftubb, on a thin free-ftone grit: 
and I am inclined to think, that no other plant of 
the cabbage or turnip tribes would come to fuch 
perfection on the fame foil, unmanured. If any 
thing of importance fhould occur in my future cul- 
tivation of this plant, I fhall communicate it to you, 
And am, your humble fervant, 
THOMAS BROUGHTON. 
Twerlon, Nov. 8, 1794. 
