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ing. In frost cover the tops with straw: It will 

 assist the blanching to lay straw, or offal hay, close 

 round them when tied. This plant is biennial here, 

 but perennial in its native climate, Spain, &c. 



CHOU DE MILAN is of the boorcole kind, and pro- 

 pagated like it, but the plants should be put out at a 

 yard asunder. This is a very good winter green, 

 and stays longer than any other at spring before it 

 shows for seed, and is then in its highest perfection. 



COLEWORT- is a very hardy, small, open headed 

 green, sown in July, or early in August, for winter 

 and spring use. But instead of the true colewort, 

 (a coarse vegetable) it is common to sow the early 

 sort of cabbages -as an agreeable substitute, to be 

 eat in their yet open state. The sweetest, however, 

 is the large sugar-loaf sort, sown about Midsummer, 

 which frequently stands the winter. 



These plants should be put out for use at from eight 

 to twelve inches asunder, according to the sort as to 

 size, though some gardeners plant closer. 



Coleworts are cultivated for winter and early spring 

 use ; but all the year it were well for the garden to 

 supply them, as they are choice greens. With this 

 view, sow cabbage seed of some sort every month, 

 and rather the early dwarf about once a fortnight. 



CUCUMBER has several shades of difference in it, 

 arising from culture and accident: but the common 



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and more distinct green sorts of it, are the short and 

 the long prickly, the cluster, the early African, and 

 the Turkey. There is a white short Dutch prickly ; 

 and also a white Turkey sort ; but both are idle 

 bearers. 



The early nature of a cucumber is the principal 

 object with gardeners,' for as much skill and care is 

 exercised to produce forward ones, it is a great draw- 

 back to have sown seed not of the forwardest kind. 



