150 MARCH. 



ence, will not induce people to raise these roots, I 

 know not what will." 



In a letter from Mr. Reynolds, dated the 

 15th January, he speaks thus of the produce of 

 the turnip-rooted cabbage : " This is certain, large 

 crops have been obtained within the two last 

 years in several counties. Their product have 

 risen from 25 to 35 ton per acre ; and if my me- 

 mory serves me right, there are two accounts 

 from Nottingham and York, as high as 44 tons. 

 Kent and Sussex have obtained near 5O tons ; but 

 one gentleman in Surrey has outdone all that I have 

 yet heard of. This plantation, and that no small 

 one, produced upward? of 56 tons per acre, in 177O. 

 I have this well attested ; and that many of his 

 single roots weighed 14lb. each. This may seem 

 incredible to some, but it is not so to me in the 

 least. For my shepherd brought me one single 

 root, on the 4th of May, 1773, that, when cleansed, 

 weighed ]7lb. the most extraordinary plant of this 

 kind ever beheld. My curiosity led me to see where 

 it grew, and, on viewing the place, I found it stood 

 where a heap of grass-burnt ashes had been i-1 

 spread ; and this occasioned its extraordinary size." 

 Mr. Reynolds' conclusion, with respect to the 

 great magnitude of this root, is justified by many 

 instances of extreme great crops of the brassica, of 

 cabbage kind, being produced on land, after burn- 

 baiting ; and even after burning the turf of heathy 

 land, without any other manure. 



This account of the great utility of the turnip^ 



rooted 



