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licate eating; but they are not fo hardy or productive. 

 Their culture is the fame as boorcole, only they may be 

 planted out at rather lefs diftance. 



Cabbage, there is a confiderable variety of, as to 

 flavour, fize, time of coining in, and hardinefs. Some 

 are for the ufe of the table, and others for cattle, though 

 the latter are very fweet before they get folid. The 

 early dwarf, or Rufjian, and early Ycrk/hire, are the 

 chief forts for fpring ufe, and the early and htcfugar- 

 leaf as excellent for funiraer and autumn. 



In JpriL the forwardeit cabbages may be tied up, (as 

 lettuces are) to aflift them to head and \vniten ; a practice 

 feldom ^en done, but which will certainly be helpiuk 

 Ufe new wetted bafs. 



Sow for early fpring cabbages about Mid-Auguji; 

 foon after they are up, thin them: in a month, draw 

 the ihongelt, and prick them out four or five inches 

 apart, where having grown about the fame time, they 

 will be fit to plant for fpring ufe ; or they may be put 

 out anv time after, even in winter ; for mould frofl 

 come directly, it wilt hardly affect them injurioufly. 

 Yet it is a good practice to let fome remain intheyW- 

 bed, at proper diftances, where being well earthed up, 

 (Or in very fevere weather covered a littlej they will 

 furvive when thofe fet out are cut off. Plants that are 

 thought too rampant towards winter, may be pulled up, 

 and planted in the fame place again, (November) and 

 will thus Hand the froft better, and not be lb likely to run. 



Plant cabbages, if in a middling foil, two feet afunder, 

 allowing fix inches more for a rich one: There fliould, 

 however, always be fome dung dug into the ground; 

 which not onlv increafes their growth, but prepares 

 the foil for future cropping. If tkey are planted at half 

 the above diilances in the rows, taking care to draw 

 every other plant in time for early greens [or cslcworts) 

 it is a very good method, as the ground is better 

 occupied, and the plants protect one another. Sec 

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