182 Cultivation of Arable Land. Cabbages. Turnip-Cabbage. 



eft chance of fuccefs.* This may, therefore, be a point that deferves the 

 notice of the extend ve turnip cukivator on all the ftronger kinds of turnip 

 land. 



The evidence that has been laid before the public by the intelligent writer of 

 the Corrected Report of the State of Agriculture in the County of Suffolk feems 

 todemonltrare, that crops of this kind become injurious to the land both in their 

 growth and their removal of the produce; and that the objections to their cul 

 ture have chiefly been raifed on thcfe grounds. It appears probable, however, 

 that, if the circumftances of the quantity of produce in cabbage-crops being, in 

 general, considerably larger than in thofe of turnips, and that part of their dete 

 riorating effects depends on the flalks or flems being improperly left in the ground 

 till they fprout afrefh, and by that means leffen the fertility of the foil, as well as 

 that of their being removed from the ground with more convenience and lefs inju 

 ry to the land, from the nature of the ridges on which they are planted, be duly 

 confidered, they will not be found to impoverifh the land on which they are 

 grown, in any very great degree, more than thofe of the turnip kind. The tri 

 als of different cultivators are likewife ira favour of the fame conclufion.f They 

 may of courfe be confidered as a proper and beneficial crop for all thofe 

 forts of land that are too ftrong and retentive of moifture for the fuccefsful growth 

 of the common turnip, efpecially where dairy hufbandry is practifed to any ex 

 tent. 



Turnip Cabbage. This is a plant that has been long known to the horticultu- 

 rilt, and which was attempted to be introduced into field culture many years ago, 

 but without complete fuccefs, notwithflanding the refults of the experiments that 

 were then made upon it, appear to have been much in its favour.j In this va 

 riety of the cabbage the bulb or apple is of a roundilh flat form, appears princi-, 

 pally above thefurface of the ground, and is as it were an enlargement of the ftem 

 of the plant, the leaves that furround it having much refemblance to thofe of bro. 

 coli. It is faid to be more hardy againft frofts than the Swedifh turnip, which 

 is a property that muft render it highly beneficial in many cafes. It has fome- 

 times been cultivated under the title of Cape Cabbage , and often confounded with 

 the Turnip-rooted Cabbage t by thofe cultivators who have not furficiently attended 

 to the circumftances by which they are diftinguifhed. It feems to be the plant 



* Modern Agriculture, vol. II. + Forby, in Annals of Agriculture, vol. XIX, &c, 



Tranfadions oi Society of Arts, &c. | Bath Papers, vol. IX, 



