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 this effect : And I cannot help obferving, 

 that this circumftance is one of the moil 

 important among the many favourable ones 

 that attend this admirable vegetable. 



Every one knows that turneps are totally 

 inadequate to fuch a ufe. They begin to 

 moot very early in the fpring, and after their 

 tops have made but a little growth, their 

 roots become fticky and of little value. 

 During the laft fortnight of March and all 

 April but little dependence can be placed 

 on their roots, for they will either be fticky 

 in this manner, or rotten with the frofts ; 

 the green herbage is then the principal food 

 they yield, and that is proper for meep 

 alone; but further, it is well known that na 

 vegetable exhauits the foil more than tur- 

 neps after they begin to run for feed, fo that 

 the farmers, who leave them for ufe at that 

 feafon of the year, pay a vaft price for the 

 advantage they receive from them ; if it is any 

 thing of a warm forward fpring, their bar- 

 ley crop, in all probability, is half ruined, 

 and confequently the foil during the whole 

 courfe much injured, 



It is a fad: that the Scotch cabbage is open 

 to none of thefe evils; when planted at a 

 proper feafon it reiifts the utmoft feverity of 

 weather, even in high moors, that are too 

 cold for moit. crops ; nothing decays it but a 

 premature growth and burfting ; if it is. 

 backward enough to keep from that, no 



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