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plenty of red beets, horferadi£hes and 

 common raddifhes, thyme, and marjoram. 

 ^urneps are fown in abundance, and ufed 

 chicHv in winter. Farfneps are fometimes 

 eaten, though not very comaion. Few 

 people took notice of potatoes ; and neither 

 the cor^imon {^Solarium tiiberojuni) nor the 

 Bermuda ones {Convolvulus Batatas) were 

 planted in Canada^ When the French here 

 are afked why they do not plant potatoes, 

 they anfwer that they cannot find any re]jfh 

 in them, and they laugh at the Englifi who 

 are fo fond of them. Throughout ali North" 

 America the root cabbage* [Braffica gon- 

 gylodes, Linn. ) is unknown to the Swedes, 

 ILnglijldi Dutch, Lrljlo, Gennans, and French^ 

 Thofe who have been employed in fowmg and 

 planting kitchen herbs in Canada, and have 

 had fome experience in gardening, told me 

 that they were obliged to fend for frefli 

 feeds from France every year, becaufe they 

 commonly loofe their ftrength here in the 

 third generation, and do not produce fuch 

 plants as would equal the original ones in 

 tade and goodnefs. 



* This is a kind of cabbnge, with hrge round eatable 

 roots, which grow out above che ground wherein it differs 

 from the turnep-cabage (BraJJJca N:.pol?ra£i--aj whole root 

 grows in the ground. Both a:e common in Germany, an4 

 ihe former likewife in hafj. 



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