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so much less time by the plants. The plants 

 very soon shewed, by their appearance, what 

 would be the result ; for, on the 2nd of June, 

 Miss Sarah Paul, a daughter of Mr. James 

 Paul, saw the plants, and while those from the 

 English seed were even then beginning to loave, 

 those from her father's seed were nothing more 

 than bunches of wide spreading leaves, having 

 no appearance of forming a head. However, 

 they succeeded the plants from the English 

 seed ; and, the whole, besides what were used 

 in the House, were given to the animals. As 

 many of the while loaves as were wanted for 

 the purpose were boiled for sows and small 

 pigs, and the rest were given to lean pigs and 

 the horn-cattle : and a fine resource they were ; 

 for, so dry was the weather, and the devasta 

 tions of the grass-hoppers so great, that we had 

 scarcely any grass in any part of the land ; 

 and, if I had not had these cabbages, I must 

 have resorted to Indian Corn, or Grain of some 

 sort. 



170. But, these spring-cabbage plants were 

 to be succeeded by others, to be eaten in Sep 

 tember and onwards to January. Therefore, 

 on the 27th of May, I sowed in the natural 

 ground eleven sorts of cabbages, some of the 

 seed from England and some got from my 

 friend, Mr. PAUL. I have noticed the extreme 



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