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any other plant hitherto cultivated in Eu^ 

 rope. 



The lad v/inter was unufually mild ; dur- 

 ing the whole of which, this vegetable re- 

 tained its verdure, as has been already ob- 

 ferved : and as it has never experienced any 

 other winter here, I cannot determine what 

 effect a fevere feafon might produce. I re- 

 marked, that the new fhoots augmented by 

 plucking the leaves of a preceding growth; 

 and that even the ftalks that fhot into flower 

 in June 1787, and were accidentally broken 

 off, were replaced by frefli ftalks and flowers 

 in the fucceeding month; lefs ftrong, in- 

 deed, but more numerous. 



As I have lately procured fome feeds 

 from the continent, I fhall pay further at- 

 tention to the cultivation of this vegetable; 



and 



