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entitled De Re Rustica, and in Dossie's Memoirs of Agricul- ture,&c. the reports of Several of the Successful candidates are publisehed, who speak very highly of its valuable proper- ties. There 1s also a letter in Dossie's Memoirs from one of the most intelligent agriculturists in the county of Norfolk, the Rev. Edward Howman, of Gissing, from which your readers, I trust, will excuse my transeribing the following passage. Speaking of some plants of the cabbage turnip,(BressSica Gongylodes caule rapum gerens,) which he had left to See what effect the frost would have upon them, he adds,“ I was much chagrined to find that in one week's time, I think in January, 1768, they were all reduced to a Soft pulp. The common turnips that week zuffered but little, being protected by Some Snow. I must conclude that tbe turnip cabbage though a hardier plant than the turnip, will even be more liable to da- mage from the frost, upon account of their Standing 80 much above the ground, which renders a much greater quantity of 51n0W necessary to protect them than what the turnips require." Whether sSubsequeut experiments confirmed the opinion of this discerning writer, or whether Subsequent trials discovered that its first conceived merits were highly overrated, 1 cannot pretend to 5a3y. But certain it is, its culture decline, and has long Since, been so totally given up, as perfectly to warrant that part of the Gentleman Farmer's remark, IDEN SE AETSE plant but little known in this gguntry." Whether the latter part ofthe period be equally jusWfliat“« the more it 1s cultivated the more its advantages will be felt by all graziers," as the Subject is now again before the pnblic, it Should be left for their determination. In giving this little detail, let it not be Sup- posed I design to throw any frivolous obstacles in the way of its revival. 1 have the cause of agriculture infinitely too much at heart ever to indulge an idle vein of critical disquisi- tion. But having, in a favourite course of reading, acquired Some information, which I conceived might not be unaccept- able, I thought myself bound in Justice to impart it. That Such as Should be disposed to attempt the culture might(by having farther Sources pointed out to them) be enabled to form a proper judgment tor themselves.

Perhaps the following agricultural anecdote, not relating to, but rieing out of, the Subject, may prove Sufticiently interesting to Some of your readers to render an apology for its insertion unnecessary. I stated in a former part of my letter, that pre- miums were offered for Several years for the encouragement of the culture of the cabbage turnip. It is not to those pre- miums we owe the first knowledge ot, and first introducion oft hat truly valuable plant, the turnip rooted cabbage. But we owe it to an accidental, undesigned Importation. Mr. Rey- nolds, of Adisham, in Kent, intending to become a candidate