BRA 



BRA 



by laving ihem with fresh cut turf, as being 

 supcrior^to the method of only sowing them 

 with grass seeds. 



The turis should be cut each a foot wide, a 

 vard lonsr, and about an inch tl-.ick, and laid 

 w-ith exactness, closely piniiig them edge to 

 edjre ; then beating them well down with large 

 wooden beaters, repeatedly rolling them with a 

 large heavy iron roller. The best season fur 

 performing work of this sort is tlie autumn or 

 verv earlv'^spring ; but the first is to be preferred 



the stamens : the style is short, the thickness of 

 the germ: the stigma capitate, and entire: 

 the psricarpium is a long siiique, somewhat 

 like the sbalt of a column, but flatted ou both 

 sides: partition with a prominent columnar top, 

 two-celled, two-valved; valves shorter than the 

 partition : the seeds are many and globular. 



The species principally cullivalcd for culinary 

 purposes are : 1 . B. oU-racca, Common Cabbage ; 

 2.B.Rf/pa, the Turnip. 



The tirst, or common Cabbage, as it it is found 



where it caii be^convenientlv done, as the turf in its wild state on the sea-shores of this country, 

 has time to establish itself well before the hot has the stem-leaves very much waved, and van- 

 season sets in. SeeTuRPiNG. ously indented ; the colour is sea-green, but 

 In order to keep bowling-greens neat after frequently with a mixture of purple; the lower 

 being thus formed, they rcqmre frequent mow- ones somewhat oval and sessile, the upper al- 

 ino-in summer, probably once a week or oftener, most linear : the flowers are large : the leaflets 

 in^'orderto keep the gfass sufficiently line and of the calyx ovate, broad and yellow: the 

 short for bowlin<T on, as well as occasional siliques short and sv/elling: the root is bien- 

 rollinffto preserve the surface firm and even, nial ; the stem upright and fleshy, having a 

 When worm-casts are much thrown up over 

 their surfaces, thev should be poled to break and 



laroe head of oblong roundish leaves, which in 

 some of the varieties are large, close, and com- 

 pact, but in others loose, spreading, and 

 open. 



All the different varieties of cultivated or 

 Garden Cabbage are supposed to proceed from 



scatter them, and then well rolled down with a 

 wooden roller, to which the scattered earthy par- 

 ticles mav adhere, and the surface be thereby 

 rendered more clean. See Poling-Grass. 



Where coarse weeds appear, such as the dock, this species. 'Ihose in most general culture are, 

 dandelion, Sec. they should be immediately the Heading Common Cabbage, 5. o/eracea ca- 

 eradicated from the very bottom, in order that p/tata, of which there are several sorts or va- 

 thev mav be prevented from scattering their seeds rieties, some coming into perfection during 

 and multiplying themselves, by winch the turf the summer season, others m the latter part of 

 would be rendered unfit for the intended use, the autumn 



Of the first sorts there are the early summer 

 kind, as the Small Round flarly Cabbage, and 

 the Large Oblong F.arly Cabbage ; the former 

 coming into use in the beginning of I\Iay, and 

 the latter towards the end of the same month ; 

 the Sugar-loaf kind, as the Early Dwarf Sugar- 

 loaf Cat)bage; Large Hollow Sugar-loaf Cabbage : 

 the first, coming in early in June, is very fine 



bile young; the latter is in perfection the two 



wt 

 'and ranks in the natural order of following iiionths, and is highly valuable for 



family use; the Early York Cabbage, which is 



and at the same time have a disagreeable appear- 

 ance. 



BOX-THORN. See Lycium. 



BOX-TREE. SeeBuxus. 



BRASSICA, a genus comprising various 

 esculent plants, of the Cabbage, Borecole, 

 Cale, Colewort, Cauliflower, Brocoli, and 

 Turnip kinds. 



It belong-s to the class and order Telradijnamia 

 SU'ujitosa, 



SiUquoscp. - ,. , - , •- , 1 J- 7 1 .u .. 

 The characters arc : that the calvx is a four- a roundish oval quick-heading cabbage, that 

 leaved, erect perianthium : leaflets lanceolate- comes into use from May till .luly, and which is 

 rmear,'concave-channelled, eibbousat the base, valuable as a principal early and suumier crop, 

 erect,'paralle!, and deciduous T the corolla istetra- as well as for light cabbages in the autumn and 

 petalous, and cruciform : the petals are Rubovate, winter. The Early Battersca Cabbage, which is 

 flat, expandin"-, entire, gradually lessening into of similar shape and growth, is ready early, and 

 claws, nearlv'^the length of the calvx: four excellent while young. The Early Russia Cab- 

 ovate neclsie'ous glands ; of which there is one bage is likewise very useful in the same slate. 

 on each side between the shorter stamen and the Of the latter, or autumn and winter sorts, are, 

 pistil, and one on each side between the longer the Common Round White Cabbage^ which is 

 stamens and the calyx: the stamina consist^of hardy, of a middling size, round, and very 

 six subulate, erect filaments; of these, two op white, coming into use in the latter end of 

 posite ones are of the length ol the calyx; and summer, as August and the following month, 

 fourlongcr; the anthtrsareercct, and acuniinate : It is an useful sort of cabbage. The Long-sided 

 the pist'illum is a columnar germ, the length of Cabbage, which is large, and of an oblong 

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