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rooted 'cabbage, is strongly confirmed by several 

 passages of Mr. Reynolds' letter of January 35, 

 3774, mentioned in the preceding note. He says, 

 *' With respect to my turnip-rooted cabbage, I 

 find it is now propagated more and more in this 

 neighbourhood, with all desired success ; and be- 

 gins to spread apace throughout every county in 

 England and Wales, and in some parts of Scotland. 

 It has been cultivated by an eminent North Briton, 

 as he expresses it, to their very good /iking and ad- 

 , and withal^ /.v 'much admired in bearing 

 very well; which, according to his informa- 

 tion, is more intense and severe than with us. I 

 have letters to prove they arc in no small esteem in 

 the kingdom of Ireland : and I find they are re- 

 commended by their Society to all concerned in 

 breeding and feeding cattle." Mr. Reynolds sup- 

 ports his assertion in this letter, of the great 

 utility of this plant as a spring-food for cattle, 

 and more particularly for sheep, by the instance 

 of what happened to him in 1773, " when most 

 of the turnips that had been sown the preced- 

 ing year had failed ; or those few that had escaped 

 run away to seed much earlier than common;" 

 and the farmers therefore were in the utmost dis- 

 tress, at the same time that he, having no less 

 than seven acres of this plant, felt no inconveni- 

 ence. 



