MARCH. 147 



For a seed bed, a rich piece of land summer-fal- 

 lowed, and dunged with rotten stuff, is to be 

 chosen. See the Calendar for last month, for par- 

 ing and burning for a nursery; also ibr the sorts of 

 cabbage. 



REYNOLDS' CABBAGE-TURNIP. 



This month, if the weather be favourable, is the 

 proper time for sowing the seed of this plant in a 

 seed-bed, for transplantation in June. It is a re- 

 markable circumstance, that very great and suc- 

 cessful exertions were made in the culture of this 

 plant thirty years ago, but that it went out of ge- 

 neral use, without any sufficient reason ; for its 

 great merit was then well known. Long since that 

 period, the ruta baga, or Swedish turnip, was intro^ 

 duced ; but in Norfolk the depredations of the fly 

 upon this plant have been so great, that it is also 

 in danger of being given up. As there is no point 

 of greater importance than that of providing green 

 winter and spring food for cattle, I must recom- 

 mend a due attention to both these plants. The 

 following particulars, by Mr. Reynolds, communi- 

 cated to the Society of Arts, dated in April, well 

 deserve the attention of the farmer, relative to this 

 cabbage-turnip. 



" I have sent six more of the roots for the in- 

 spection of the Society, indifferently chosen. 

 They weigh 38lb. so that upon an average, at this 

 time (viz. April 2Q), there is no less than 35 tons 

 per acre. And let it be observed, they are not, full 



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