the winter, when there is plenty of grass. The spring plants 

 are in the general way the most useful, and are very good 

 for lambing ewes. 1 never grew red cabbages ; I have seen 

 fine crops of them, and heard them commended as being 

 more hardy than any other cabbage. Enough has been 

 said about the wonderful Caasarean Cabbage ; the greatest 

 wonder belonging to the subject is, that people should be 

 so taken in. I had a plant given me in the spring of 1828. 

 I did not endeavour to save any seed from it. It grew 

 seven or eight feet high, and produced many small cab- 

 bages, but one drum-head cabbage was three times the 

 worth of all of them. 



KOHL RABI, or TURNIP CABBAGE. This I grew thirty 

 years ago ; found it would stand the hardest frost, being as 

 hard as a stone, and not worth cultivating. 



BARLEY. The most frequent growth of it is after 

 turnips. The land cannot be made too fine for it, or for the 

 clover which is so generally sown with it, and which does 

 best with drilled corn. Barley may remain uncut longer 

 after it is ripe, than any other grain ; still, if left too long, 

 many heads will break off, and be left in the field. The 

 small quantity of Chevalier I sowed last year turning out 

 to be highly productive, and of a fine, plump grain, I have 

 sown no other kind this year, and finer crops of barley than 

 I now have are not often seen. From the thinness of its 

 skin, it is thought that it would be more likely to sprout in 

 a wet harvest than the common sort. It probably may-^- 

 but it is this thinness of skin and tendency to vegetate that 

 induce the maltsters to give a higher price for it than for 

 any other barley. This barley, which is so much approved 

 of, was introduced by Charles Chevalier, Esq. of Aspall 

 Hall, near Debenham, Suffolk, from a few grains given him, 

 about eleven or twelve years ago, by a labourer living in 

 one of his cottages, who selected those grains out of a small 

 quantity grown in his garden for food for his fowls. A. 

 new species of grain cannot be obtained, but a valuable 

 new variety may soon be produced by careful cultivation. 

 And from the produce of one uncommon and fine car, of 

 from one root of any kind, a sufficient quantity of seed to sow 



