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should be made in the first and fourth weeks of August respectively. 
With this intimation readers will have no difficulty in determining 
the dates best suited to the locality in which they reside. 
The seed should be sown in drills, about a foot apart, and upon 
ground which has been reduced to a fine tilth. If the soil is at all 
dry, fill the drills with water, and sow as soon asit has soaked away. 
This is an important point, because when sown in dry soil there is a 
risk of the seed laying dormant for several weeks, as it will not 
germinate until the soil has been moistened in some way. It is a 
common practice to sow broadcast in beds, but drills are much pre- 
ferable, as the plants have a good chance of acquiring strength, 
without being overcrowded, and transplanting is in consequence ren- 
dered quite unnecessary. 
The quarter selected for spring cabbages should be sheltered, and 
in preparing it for the reception of the plants, enrich the soil with 
manure, and dig it over deeply. The plants must be put out as 
soon as they are of a suitable size, and the distance at which they 
are put apart must be regulated by the size of the respective kinds. 
Atkins’s Matchless should be planted twelve inches apart, in rows 
fifteen inches from each other. In poor soils they may be twelve 
inches apart each way. Enfield Market requires to be from eighteen 
to twenty inches apart each way. If the planting has to be done 
in dry weather, draw shallow drills, pour water along them, and 
proceed to plant, and the results will more than justify the addi- 
tional labour incurred. In the course of the autumn, and again in 
the spring, stir the space between the rows with the hoe, for the 
purpose of keeping the weeds down and the surface loose. The 
plants left in the drills after the quarters have been filled, ought not 
to be destroyed, for in the course of the winter blanks will occur, 
and the importance of having a reserve to draw upon for filling up 
the places that have become vacant in the rows, need not be urged. 
THE MYRSIPHYLLUM. 
BY J. F. JONES, NEW YORK. 
ete late years the Myrsiphyllum has acquired a consider- 
¥ able degree of importance in America, and as it may 
be grown quite as successfully in England, and em- 
ployed for the same purposes as here, a few particulars 
of its character and cultivation will probably prove 
interesting to many of your readers. 
It is a liliaceous plant, introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, 
and has long slender shoots, which make rapid growth, and are 
remarkable for their extreme elegance. ‘These shoots are very 
slender, branch freely, and are regularly furnished with rather small 
leaves, which are of a remarkably rich green colour. These shoots 
are produced, under a suitable course of culture, during the autumn 
and winter months, and are so valuable for intermixing with cut 
