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•excellent vegetable would never have ex- 

 tended itfelf, if fuch coftly methods had been 

 confidered as really requifite. 



The public heard nothing farther upon 

 this branch of agriculture, till Mr. Wynn 

 Baker, under the patronage of the Dublin 

 Society, published fome experiments upon 

 the turnep cabbage, and boor cole : They 

 were few, but extremely valuable; executed 

 with an accuracy, and related with a precifion 

 not often found in writings on hufbandry. 



Since the publication of Mr. Bakers re- 

 port, we have had no frefh intelligence con- 

 cerning cabbages •: There is not extant in 

 print a lingle experiment upon the Great 

 Scotch fort : It is with the utmoft pleafure 

 that I minuted in my journey all the intel- 

 ligence I could gain concerning this vege- 

 table : I was fortunate enough to meet with 

 many gentlemen that had cultivated it for 

 feveral years ; fome of them, from the curio- 

 fity of the object, had made accidental mi- 

 nutes of feveral circumftances of the culture, 

 expences, produce, &c. thefe they favoured 

 me with, and in other particulars gave me 

 accounts from their own memory, and that 

 of their fervants : But as I had not any re- 

 gular regifters of experiments in a feries, I 

 threw the intelligence I received into as 

 clear and methodical an order as I was able. 

 So far did very well for each minute ; but 

 as the circumftanees of culture, product, and 



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