Cultivation of Arabic Land. Turnip-rooted Cabbage Method of planting. \ 8 ?&quot; 



not eafily afterwards removed, it may be neceffary to draw up the whole of the 

 plants clean on one fide of the bed, digging or turning the foil over in the place 

 where they flood, to the depth of four or five inches, with the fpade, putting the 

 plants in the trenches in the proportion of forty or fifty in each yard, the roots 

 being covered by the earth taken out of the fucceeding trench, and (lightly trod 

 den down upon them. In this manner the whole of the plants that require it, arc 

 to be entrenched : by which their improper growth may not only be checked, but 

 the plants be rendered more lit to be fet out in the field. Where the land for the 

 feed-bed has, however, been properly prepared, and is perfectly freed from weeds, 

 this procefs will feldom be found requifite.* 



Method of Planting This fort of plants may be fet out in the fame manner 

 as the turnip cabbage, either upon the plain ploughed furface, or after the 

 land has been raifed into ridges, in the way defcribed above. The latter is, how 

 ever, to be preferred, efpecially where the foil is inclined to be moid. They 

 are planted at different diftances, according to the goodnefs of the land, but 

 the molt general practice is from two to two and an half or three feet. In the 

 ridge method it is ufual to fet them on the middle of the ridges, at the diftance 

 of two feet in the rows. The plants are to be carefully drawn from the feed 

 bed towards the latter end of June, for the fummer planting, when of the fizeof 

 good large cabbage-plants. And in order that as little injury as poffible may be 

 done to their roots, this bufinefs mould be performed immediately after rain, or 

 after the beds have been well watered. They are then to be made up into fmall 

 bundles, and distributed by women or children fingly along the ridges, or on the 

 plain furface of the land, at proper diftances, to be directly put into the foil by 

 the dibblers ; in doing which, they mould be plunged up to the place of the 

 branching out of the leaf flems, the mould or foil being firmly clofed about them 

 in the manner recommended for the common cabbage plants. It is particularly 

 neceflary to attend to this laft operation in dry feafons, as the fuccefs of the crop 

 in a great meafure depends upon its being properly performed.! 



Care mould likewife be taken that a greater number of plants be not drawn 

 from the feed-bed than can be planted out the fame day, and that they be as little 

 as poflible expofed to the action of the fun and wind. It is alfo neceflary for a few 

 days to guard againft their being pulled up by rooks or other birds. 



After-Culture. This is to be carefully attended to here, as well as in all other 

 crops of a fimilar kind. In about ten days or a fortnight, when the plants grow 



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* Tugwell in Bath Papers 3 vol. IX. t Bath Papers, vol. IX. 



