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Article XVII. 



On the Culture of Turnip-rooted Cabbage. 

 [By Sir Thomas Beevor, bart.] 



Gentlemen, 



I AM glad to find, by a letter from your Secre- 

 tary, that the importance and value of turnip- 

 rooted cabbages are at length become more generally 

 known, and better afcertained in the Weftern 

 Counties. I have long experienced the benefit of 

 them for a late fpring feed ; and laft year (which 

 was fo unfavourable to all the crops of the common 

 turnips, by the mildew in autumn, and the fevere 

 frofl: in the winter, whereby they became rotten ^ 

 foon after Chriftmas) has opened the eyes of my 

 neighbours to fee the propriety of a pradlice they 

 had fo long overlooked and negle6led ; I mean the 

 having a portion of the turnip crop of this kind, 

 as I have. The following is my method of culti- 

 vating them; and experience convinces me that it 

 1} cheaper and better than any other. 



In the firfl: or fecond week in June, I fow the 

 lame quantity of feed, hoe the plants at the fame 

 fize, leave them at the fame diftance from each 

 other, and treat them in all refpefts like the com- 

 mon turnip. In this method I have always ob- 

 tained 



