8 On Garden Cabbages.[July

From the extenſive circulation of your Magazine, in the Agricultural as welMas Commercial World, and in an age of enquiry, a diſquiſition of this kind may not be unintereſting to your Agricultural Readers; and, in the end, prove of ſome ad- vantage to the public, by weakening that prejudice, which is in no ſmall degree too prevalent among that claſs of ſociety, and impreſs upon their minds the great importance of the abridgment of labour, by the juſt applicatfon of the mechanic powers, in the conſtru@tion of implements, upón rational prin- ciples.

As the Board of Agriculture have offered a Gold Medal to the perſon who ſhall give the beſt account(with drawings) of the various implements of huſbandry, I hope that will excite an emulation worthy fhe genius of our country, in this moſt important detail of Agriculture. Your?s,

WILLIAM LESTER.

Patent Harrow and Cha Engine Manufadtory, Northampton, July i9gth, 1800.

We wiſh to ſecond Mr. Leſter’s requeſt to our Correſpon- dents. E.

E AIC FD E

AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE EXPENDITURE OF GARDEN CAB- BAGEES.

To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultura! Magazine*

SIR» | Re LEE of your deſire of obtaining every hint towards

_4 the improvement of the feld or garden culture, for the be- nefit of your readers and the public, I beg leave to preſent you with the following, which I pradi| not aware of it, and which many who are, flight, I think, without ſufficient reaſon. When a cabbage is in perfe@ion, and you wiſh to cut it, inſtead of ſevering the whole from the ſtalk, in the com- mon method, ſcoop out only the loaf, or heart, which is to be eaten, leaving aïl the large lower leaves entire and untouched. T he conſequence will be the produétion;, in due-time, of another young cabbage, ſuperior or more in flavour, if not quite egual in ſize, to the firſt growth.—Quere, would nôt this anſwer in the field culture?—we return you thanks for the abundant amuſe- ment and inſtruétion your excellent Publication has afforded us, in this part of the country./

Ï am, Sir, with reſpe&t,

Your moſt humble Servant, King's Lynn, Norfolk, CLERICUS. Fune 28, 1800.

iſe with ſucceſs, though ſomeare,