GHAP. HI.] CABBAGES. 



ed upon as worth three hundred from the seed 

 bed. In short, no man, in England, unless he 

 be extremely negligent, ever plants out from the 

 seed-bed. Let any farmer try this method 

 with only a score of plants. He may do it with 

 three minutes labour. Surely, he may spare 

 three minutes, and 1 will engage, that, if he 

 treat these plants afterwards as he does the 

 rest, and, if all be treated well, and the crop a 

 fair one, the three minutes will give him fifty 

 pounds weight of any of the larger sorts of 

 cabbages. Plants are thus raised, then taken 

 up and tied neatly in bundles, and then 

 brought out of Dorsetshire and Wiltshire, and 

 sold in Hampshire for three-pence (about six 

 cents) a hundred. So that it cannot require the 

 heart of a lion to encounter the labour attend 

 ing the raising of a few thousands of plants. 



182. However, my plants, this year, have all 

 gone into the field from the seed-bed ; and, in 

 so fine a climate, it may do very well; only 

 great care is necessary to be taken to see that 

 they be not too thick in the seed-bed. 



183. As to the preparation of the land, as to 

 the manuring, as to the distance of the rows 

 from each other, as to the act of planting, and 

 as to the after culture, all are the same as in 

 the case of transplanted Swedish Turnips ; and, 

 therefore, as to these matters, the reader has 



