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ON THE KOHLRABE. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine, S1R,

SAT myself down the other day, and had actually begun a letter to that effect, resolved, by an application in propriä persona, to endeavour, through Me medium of the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine, ko obtain a simall poruon of the Seed of the Kohli-abe, the account of which, in page 321 of your eighth volume, I confess, much(0 SiE02d me. 1 1s there introduced to the public as a plant of Superior hardiness, little known in this country, and EUROPE a better acquaint- ance. Upon a re-perusal, however, 0 of that paper,[ am Strong- 1y mistaken, if the“ Gentleman Farmer" bas not unwittingly been led to recommend as a New and valuable addition to the winter provision of our cattle, a vegetable production long known, and in Miller's ume, Supposed even to be indigenous. But as Dr. Withering takes no notice of 1t in the Jast edition ot his Arrangement of British plants, those which were con- Sidered as growing wild in'the neighböurhliood of Dover, must probably bavearisen from Seeds accidentally couveyed thither. In pages 49 and 50 of the Sixth volumes of the Museum Rusticum, there are two engravings of what I conceive to be the Same plant, under the denominations of Caulorapum Ro- Eundum, and Caulorapum Longwm, Sketched as 15 Stated from the prints which Gerard had exhibited of them. About ten Years ago I had Sone of the Seeds given me by a gentleman recently returned from a tour on the continent, who had there collected them under the title of the Chou FINGEN So striking is the Similarity of these compound terms; so evidently ex- presSive of a certain BEER of Structure, as to leave little doubt in my ming, but that Kohlrabe, Chou Rave, Caulorapum, and Cabbage Turnip, are but different denominations of the Same plant, I 3peak with Some hesitation, because, having never Seen the Kohlrabe in its growing State, 1 Should com- init mySself were 1 at present 10 adopt a more decided tone. Willing to avow my error whenever it Shall be proved to be Such, but, at present, presuming myself to De 1 right in my conjecture, I can assure the“ Gentleman Farmer? that ite oul- ture as a DANE crop was by no means unfrequent in this coun- try between thirty and forty years ago. Indeed, Such Was the opinion entertained of it, that premiums were, 157 Severa! years, oflered by the Society for the Encouragement ot EE rEs Arts, and Sciences, tor“ raising and duly cultv ating the cab- bage turnip, and giving an: Gru the Soll, culture, prod: UCeC, &c.&c.&c." In order that the public might be enabled, by a Set of well conducted experiments, to form= Just AUDTGCIEE tion of its merits. In the Muscum Rusticum, in the work