SI* OF ESCULENTS. SECT. XV. 



The late cabbages, or thofe of fummer and autumn, 

 (hould be fown early and late in the fpring. For early 

 fummer ufes, fow after Mid-February on a little heat, 

 or under hand-glaffes, on a warm border; the later 

 crops in March, to the end of it ; and for the lateft at 

 the end of April) when the fmall RuJJtan fort will 

 anfwer beft, and be delicate. 



Sow red cabbage feed either about the middle of 

 Augujl or beginning oi March \ but as there is much 

 more bad kcd than good of this vegetable, be as care- 

 ful of the fort as poffible; i. e. fuch as will be folid, 

 and of a deep colour. 



Carrot, there is a little variety of, in colour, fize, 

 and time of coming in, though not much in tafre. We 

 have orange, red, and yellow, but the former is generally 

 preferred. The fort fown for the fir/1 crop, whether 

 jn cold ground, or on a hot-bed, is the early horn-carrot. 

 Both this and the late horn-carrot grow Ihort and thick, 

 and are therefore proper for heavy, or {hallow foils, as 

 the other forts are for light and deep ones. 



Sozv carrots always in good time, as the feed lies 

 long in the ground, and they are, by many perfons, 

 coveted early. A few fhould be fown in a tavour- 

 able fituation, the firfl tolerable weather in February , 

 digging the ground well and deep for the purpofe; for 

 it it is lumpy, the carrots will grow forked, as they 

 will alfo if the ground is frelh dunged. 



Carrot feed mould be mixed with dry fand, or earth, 

 rubbing them well together, in order the better to 

 fpread it equally m lowing. Ule about twice as much 

 fand as feed, and if eaith, it were better to be ot a 

 different colour froni that on which the feed is dif- 

 tnbuted, tfrat it may be Feeh. 



{{early in the month, the new fown beds may be 

 covered with a little haulm, or draw, which will help 

 tlie feed' to germinate; and prefcrve them from b-nng 

 thiown out of the ground by fi oil ; and this covering 

 ihould be continued on nights, and taken off by day, 



when 



