CABBAGE, in botany. See BRASSICA.—In the Georgical essays, we find this plant greatly recommended as an excellent food for cattle, producing much dung, and being an excellent substitute for hay. The author prefers the Scotch kind, as being most durable, and preferable on all other accounts. He also recommends autumn-sowed plants in preference to those sowed in the spring; the former producing a much more weighty crop than the latter. The expence of raising an acre of good cabbages he values at 14/. 15 s. and its produce at 34/.
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