[Evelyn says, "'Tis scarce a hundred years since we first had cabbages
out of Holland, Sir Anthony Ashley, of Wiburg St. Giles, in
Dorsetshire, being, as I am told, the first who planted them in
England."--_Acetaria_, sect. 11. They were introduced into Scotland by
the soldiers of Cromwell's army.]
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