LECT. VII 



PROFITABLE CULTURE 



101 



and severe winter, snow protecting them, hearted 

 quickly in the spring, and some were sold for Is. per 

 dozen, the later at 6d. per dozen. He had about two 

 rods of them quite in the open, and sold the crop 

 for 2, or at the rate of 160 per acre; but that 

 was because 110 others could be had in the district. 



FIG. 25. RESULTS OF GOOD AND BAD MANAGEMENT. 



1. The results of 1 and 2 in the preceding figure. 2. The result of 3 and 4 

 same figure. 3. Lettuce developed in ample space plants a foot 

 asunder crop valuable. 4. Three plants in the same space crop 

 profitless. 



Brussels sprouts, when very fine, sell for a penny a 

 stalk sixteen to eighteen inches long covered with 

 knobs, and that is at the rate of 30 per acre, after 

 allowing a margin of 25 per cent, for failures, or 

 second or third rate plants. 



Savoys often realise equal amounts. Autumn 

 giant cauliflowers still more in rich soil, and allowing 

 even half for expenses in culture, there remains a 

 fair profit behind. Even cole worts or bunch greens 

 a kind of young cabbage, sown in May, and the 

 plants dibbed in a foot apart, on land that becomes 

 vacant by the removal of early crops commonly 

 realize 15 to 20 an acre. The land is not dug but 

 hoed, therefore the cost of culture is trifling. Cot- 



