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as I could. All tlie other varieties used to follow such crops as 

 early potatoes and peas, when, with liberal culture in a rich soil, and 

 copious drenchings of sewage water up to the end of September, I 

 used to get them very fine. 



The first sowing of the Walclieren, Snoif's Winter Wlute, and 

 Adams's Early White, should take place about the end of March, 

 on a warm south border, to be carefully guarded against 

 birds, and to be occasionally watered during dry weather, 

 and to be diligently hand-weeded from time to time, as the weeds 

 appear. Another sowing should be made, about the third week in 

 April, of sucli sorts as KnijliVs Protecting, ChappeVs Cream, and 

 Dilcoch's Bride. These will come into use in the early spring for 

 successional crops ; while for still later crops the middle of May is 

 in good time ; and plants raised from this sowing will be ready quite 

 as soon as there is ground to receive them. It should be remem- 

 bered it is much better to put out a young thriving plant than to 

 have those that have been starving each other in the seed-bed for 

 some weeks past, The best late varieties are Carter's Champion, 

 CatteVs Reliance, and the WiUcore Late White. This last is an old 

 subject on the board, but not yet beaten when obtained true. All 

 these later sowings require exactly the same treatment as that 

 recommended for the first. 



To secure strong plants for planting out, and to have them stout 

 and sturdy, as they ought to be, they should be pricked out into 

 another piece of ground, as soon as they are about three inches high, 

 placing them about three inches apart each way. Plants so treated 

 are far preferable to those left standing in the seed-bed. 



Those of the first sowing should be planted out about the middle 

 of June, and those of the next a month later, while the last ought 

 to be in their permanent quarters not later than the 12th of August. 

 The two first will be able to take care of themselves, if the soil has 

 been properly prepared. But besides this, the late ones will require 

 extra attention in watering, and, when well established, a good dose 

 of manure or sewage-water once a week will help them amazingly. 

 "What we want for those late spring kinds is a close, compact plant, 

 and not those huge things more resembling trees than broccoli 

 plants, as when they come into use we do not want heads the size 

 of a 4lb. loaf. Such monster subjects may suit an exhibition table, 

 but they would be no credit to a gentleman's dinner ; and if I had 

 the judging of such things, I would soon teach the exhibitor that I 

 valued more those that were not larger than a breakfast cup ; and 

 in this matter all the cooks will agree with me. 



The after-culture of these plants is to keep the weeds down by a 

 constant stirring of the surface, and, as autumn approaches, all the 

 yellow leaves should be cleared away. On a dry day, early in 

 November, take out a spadeful of soil on the north side of each 

 plant, and then gently bend down the plant with its heart pointing 

 northward, until its heart is about six inches above the ground level ; 

 go on with the next precisely the same, filling up with the soil that 

 is taken from the next plant, until all is completed. This is the 

 best safeguard against frost of any practice I have yet tried. I 



