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rooted cabbage of the circumference of 1 8 inches, 

 weighed 5 -'-lb. and the common turnip of the fame 

 circumference 3ilb. only. I took others of different 

 dimenfions, and found throughout the refult to be 

 in that proportion. They were all without their 

 tops, otherwife the exceeding of the turnip- rooted 

 cabbage would have been greater; the tops of them 

 being remarkably bufliy. It muft however be 

 mentioned, that thofe roots were weighed at the 

 latter end of March ; had they been weighed at 

 Chriftmas, it is likely the difference had not been 

 fo great. Still their late continuance for a green 

 and moft nourifhing food, is indifputably a merit 

 they muft be allowed, beyond any other known 

 vegetable production. 



Our weather continues yet very cold, but mode- 

 rate fliowers are forwarding vegetation in defiance 

 of North-eaft winds. We have now fnow, whilft 

 I write this, but it melts as it fall^ 



I. am, \fith real regard, your's, 



THOMAS BEEVOR. 



HelJxl, May \Jl, 1786. 



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