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the open ground as soon as it can be nicely 

 worked, and by the first of May they should 

 be growing finely. But those grown under 

 glass from seed sown in the spring, should not 

 be put out till the weather is quite warm and 

 settled, and all danger of severe frost is over. 

 Though naturally hardy plants, they are not so 

 when forced in hot-beds or even cold frames. 

 After being placed in the open ground, nothing 

 does more good than frequent stirrings of the 

 soil around them. Be careful also never to 

 set 'them, if it can be helped, where any of the 

 cabbage family, or even turnips or radishes, 

 have been grown the year before ; for if you 

 do, you will very likely lose your crop with that 

 pest of the garden, the " club-foot," which ren- 

 ders the root a diseased solid mass. This evil 

 is so great in my grounds, that I have almost 

 given up contending with it; and in '71 my 

 sales of cabbage and cauliflowers unitedly only 



