CABBAGES 



Climates ! More to the Southward than Delaware State I have 

 not been ; but, in those countries the farmers have to pick and 

 choose. They have two Long Island summers and falls, and 

 three English, in every year. 



187. According to these various circumstances men must form 

 their judgment ; but, it may be of some use to state the length 

 of time, which is required to bring each sort of cabbage to per 

 fection. The following sorts are, it appears to me, all that can, 

 in any case, be necessary. I have put against each nearly the time, 

 that it will require to bring it to perfection, from the time of 

 planting out in the places where the plants are to stand to come 

 to perfection. The plants are supposed to be of a good size when 

 put out, to have stood sufficiently thin in the seed-bed, and to 

 have been kept clear from weeds in that bed. They are also 

 supposed to go into ground well prepared. 



Early Salisbury . . . Six weeks. 

 Early York .... Eight weeks. 

 Early Battersea . . . Ten weeks. 

 Sugar Loaf .... Eleven weeks. 

 Late Battersea . . . Sixteen weeks. 

 Red Kentish .... Sixteen weeks. 

 Drum-head . . &quot;1 

 Thousand-headed i 

 Large hollow . ^ . Five months. 

 Ox cabbage . j 

 Savoy . J . 



1 88. It should be observed, that Savoys, which are so very rich 

 in winter, are not so good, till they have been pinched by frost. 

 I have put red cabbage down as a sort to be cultivated, because 

 they are as good as the white of the same size, and because it 

 may be convenient, in the farmer s family, to have some of them. 

 The thousand-headed is of prodigious produce. You pull off the 

 heads, of which it bears a great number at first, and others come ; 

 and so on for months, if the weather permit ; so that this sort does 

 not take five months to bring its first heads to perfection. When 

 I say perfection, I mean quite hard : quite ripe. However, this 

 is a coarse cabbage, and requires great room. The Ox-cabbage 

 is coarser than the Drum-head. The Large hollow is a very fine 

 cabbage ; but it requires very good land. Some of all the sorts 

 would be best ; but, I hope, I have now given information enough 

 to enable any one to form a judgment correct enough to begin 

 with. Experience will be the best guide for the future. An 

 ounce of each sort of seed would perhaps, be enough ; and the 

 cost is, when compared with the object, too trifling to be thought 

 of. 



189. Notwithstanding all that I have said, or can say, upon the 

 subject of cabbages, I am very well aware, that the extension of the 



