in botany. See Brassica.—In the Geographical 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-sown plants in preference to those sown in the spring; the former producing a much more weighty crop than the latter. The expense of raising an acre of good cabbages he values at £4.15s., and its produce at £4.

Cabbage-Tree, the English name of a species of Palma.