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envy their neighbours every acre of 

 turnep land, and even cultivate that 

 root on foils totally improper for it : 

 Whereas cabbages will fupply their 

 place on fuch foils, and yield the clay 

 and clayey loam farmers five times 

 the profit that is ever gained by their 

 brethren from turneps : This is an 

 advantage of a mofl peculiar nature, 

 and highly worthy of the attention 

 of all gentlemen in clay and loam 

 countries. 

 'Third. Cabbages are a crop that may be 

 depended upon much more fecurely 

 than turneps : The feed, with pro- 

 per management, fcarce ever fails; 

 it is fown at a feafon that fecures it ; 

 and all thefe experiments prove, that 

 they never fail in the transplanta- 

 tion; even without watering and in 

 droughts. Of allthe crops on fome 

 hundred acres that thefe gentlemen 

 have conftantly cultivated, for feven 

 or eight years, not one acre ever 

 failed ; which is faying much in 

 favour of the vegetable. Turneps 

 are often deflroyed by the iiy, and 

 froits early in winter. 

 Thefe circumrtances, among many others 

 already mentioned, cannot fail of rendering 

 the culture of the Great Scotch cabbage an 

 objecf of vaft importance to Britain. 



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