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any other forage, that it feems to me to de- 

 ferve to be adopted every where, and to have 

 the preference, even in the bcft years, over 

 all other roots with which beads are nourifli- 

 ed. It may be planted in open fields, and 

 in lanes it will fucceed in all lands, and 

 efpecially in thofe that are moift and light. 

 If in hard and clayey grounds it is prevented 

 from making its way far into the earth, it will 

 extend itfelf horizontally, and will produce 

 above the furface that which the nature of the 

 foil hinders from being produced beneath it e 



This mo ft valuable root is not affected by 

 the viciffitude of the feafons, and has no de- 

 structive enemy ; the infects and vermin, 

 which make ravages on all other kinds of 

 B 3 vegetables, 



two roots; fince he fays, that the leaves of Englifn. 

 turnips refemble thofe of red beet, which is not true ; 

 for the Englilh turnips are in reality only a fpecies of 

 turnips larger than others, of which the rough and 

 deeply cut foliage is exactly like that of all others, and 

 they are cultivated nearly in the fame manner. Mr. 

 Buchoz, therefore, has been deceived by a miflaken 

 name ; and what he has faid relative to the cultivation 

 of turnips, applies only to that of the Root of Scarcity. 



