CHAP. III.] CABBAGES. 223 



Island summers and falls, and three English, 

 in every year. , 



187. According to these various circum 

 stances men must form their judgment; but, it 

 may be of some use to state the length of' lime, 

 which is required to bring each sort of cabbage 

 to perfection. The following sorts are, it ap 

 pears to me, all that can, in any case, be neces 

 sary. 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 per 

 fection. The plants are supposed to be of 

 a good size when put out, to have stood suffi 

 ciently 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 . . * , 



Thousand-headed 



Large hollow . . . )^Five months. 



Ox cabbage . . , v 



