Cultivation ofArabU Land. Turnip Cabbages-Methods of planting. \ S:&amp;gt; 



cultivated in many parts of Germany under the tide of Kobbta ~f t and which is faid 

 to be extremely hardy. 



The foils that are the mo ft adapted to the growth of this plant are thofe of 

 the more light and dry kinds, that have fome degree of elevation in refpecl to 

 fituation, and which are in a good Mate of fertility, from previous tillage. 



The land is to be prepared by ploughing three or four times, in nearly the 

 fame manner as for the common turnip, being laid up in the autumn, in order to 

 be rendered fine and mellow by the action of the fro 3s and other caufes during 

 the winter. After being thus well prepared, at the time of planting, it is to be 

 ploughed into fmall two-bout ridges, and a fuitable proportion of manure, ac 

 cording to the ftateof the foil, turned in. On the ridges, when flatted by alight 

 roller, the plants are to be fet out. 



Seed t and Time of Sowing. In collecting the feed, the fame method mould be 

 purfued as has been advifed for cabbages, in order that no adulteration may take 

 place. In cultivating this plant the feed is fometimes fown in beds in the fields, 

 \vhencethe plants are afterwards to be fet out, and at others in drills or broadcast, 

 where the plants are to remain, being only thinned out to proper di fiances by the 

 hoe. The firft method is probably in general to be preferred, though fome culti 

 vators contend that the plants fucceed better when not removed from the places 

 in which they were depofhed when fown. Where the tranfplanting method is 

 practifed, the feed mould be fown fufficiently early to have the plants of a proper 

 fize, as of about fix or feven weeks growth, at the time of tranfplanting. About 

 the middle of March or beginning of April may be the properefl periods. The 

 feed in thefe cafes mould be fown very thin, and the weak plants afterwards thin 

 ned out, till they are left at not lefs than three inches diftance from each other. 

 Five or fix ounces of feed will in general be a proportion fufficient for affording 

 plants for fetting out an acre of ground. In the drill method the fame propor 

 tion of feed may alfo in common be fufficient, which mould be put into the foil 

 about the beginning or middle of April ; but if fown later, as in May or June, 

 it frequently fucceeds. On the broadcaft plan, from the plants not coming quick 

 ly to the hoe, the latter end of March may probably be the moft fuitable period for 

 fowing. In this method, the proportion of feed muft be fomewhat increafed. 



Method of Planting. Crops of this fort may be planted out either upon the plain 

 furfaceof the loughed ground, or after it has been thrown up into ridges in the 

 manner defcribed above ; but the latter is by much the beft method, efpecially 

 where the land is not perfectly dry. The mofl eligible time of performing the 

 bufinefs of planting is, as in the common cabbage, when the land has had a good 



