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Several of the cabbage cultivators feafons 

 of fovving not being minuted, the point is 

 not decifive ; but upon the whole, I think 

 the fpring plants evidently lafl: the longed; 

 and let me, in addition to this, remark, that 

 Mr. Tucker cultivating both, and finding the 

 fpring ones to lafl: much longer than the 

 others, is a very decifive circumftance ; and 

 I may further obferve, that of the crops I 

 viewed of Mr. Turners, the winter ones 

 were fo exceffively large, and ftraitened over 

 the heads, that I mould think it a miracle 

 if they lafted longer than Chrijlmas, or at 

 leaft than January: To reafon upon the 

 point, one cannot help concluding in the 

 fame manner ; for it is well known, that a 

 cabbage holds but a mort time in perfection ; 

 when at its full growth it burfts, and then 

 the weather feizes it, and, if it is not too 

 late in the fpring for moots to proceed from 

 it, rottennefs takes place. Whoever has 

 obferved the feveral fpecies that are culti- 

 vated in gardens, mud have taken notice, 

 that the plants not near full grown are thofe 

 which fupport the winter bed. Upon the 

 whole, I (hall venture to conclude, that the 

 fpring fown plants, upon an average, conti- 

 nue in ufe the longed. 



Crops that require being confumed early 

 in the winter, cannot be applied to the com- 

 plete fatting of beads ; but mud be ufed for 

 finifning the fatting of thofe that have had 

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