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appears particularly singular to me is, that the farmers at their clubs 

 are turning round upon us and teaching us how to grow that valuable 

 plant the Cabbage. Mr C. Cadle, of Gloucester, has been illustrating 

 the culture of the Cabbage to the reading public, but I do not find any- 

 new light cast upon the practice of about sixty years ago. Mr Cadle, 

 from his mode of taking the crop of Cabbage off the land in the first 

 instance, appears to have no idea of what our scientific men call vege- 

 table physiology. The Cabbage, says Mr Cadle, " should be cut off 

 with a knife, leaving the three lower leaves on the stem, these being 

 cut off separately, and taken away with the Cabbage ; this will allow 

 the stem to shoot 0T.t, and you get a second crop in September and 

 October." Now, as the leaf of a Cabbage possesses all the inherent 

 qualities necessary for producing new plants (or sprouts) of the same 

 kind, the removal of the leaves immediately after the Cabbage is cut 

 seriously damages the stalk, and if a hot sun visits the newly-denuded 

 stalks, some of them die from sunstroke. By leaving all the healthy 

 leaves on the stalks below the " heart," that should be carefully cut 

 out, the next crop will be much earlier, and perhaps 50 per cent 

 better than that which follows naked stalks. 



A Bewdly Forester. 



YOUNG GARDEWERS. 



Allow me, through the ' Gardener,' to thank Mr Hinds for his able article on 

 the Balsam. I quite concur with him that it is almost forgotten by a great 

 many gardeners, and not known how to be grown by a great many others ; it 

 certainly is one of our most beautiful of soft-wooded plants, although I am 

 afraid it is ignored from the notice of a great many young gardeners, but certainly 

 not from all, for the majority deserve more credit than is generally given them. 

 Neither do I think that the majority of them are kidgloved ones, as some writers 

 of the present day would have us believe : I am afraid that they judge the hun- 

 dreds by a few exceptions they may have met with. Mr Hinds seems to 

 think that young gardeners ought to work in the evenings, and not be paid for 

 it ; neither ought they to appertr respectable and neat, with a collar around 

 their neck, but throw the collar away. Now that style of young men may 

 do for Mr Hinds, or Mr Hinds' employers, but they would not do 

 for me, nor my employers, nor, in fact, for the majority of places. In the 

 situation I am now holding, I have three young men in the bothy, and I 

 get as much work from them as any master could desire, yet they wear collars, 

 paper ones or linen ones, I do not know ; enough for me to know that they wear 

 a collar ; and one thing more, they polish their boots twice or thrice a-week, and 

 consequently they are always respectable and tidy, and always ready to run to 

 the mansion if required at a minute's notice, and not only t lat, but it teaches 

 them and helps them to keep themselves above the labouring a;en in the garden, 

 which every young gardener ought to do. Their evenings, with a few exceptions, 

 they have always to themselves for study; and when they do work I always pay 



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