46 CABBAGE. 



should be prepared, as directed in a future page of this hook, 

 (see Index,) so as to be ready to receive the seed by the latter 

 end of February, or early in March. Plants thus produced, 

 as well as those raised as before directed, will be fit to trans- 

 plant about the middle of April, and should be carefully 

 planted, with a suitable dibble, in good ground, from six- 

 teen inches to two feet apart, according to size and kind : 

 these, by being hoed often, will produce good Cabbages in 

 June. If seeds of the large early kinds be sown in a warm 

 border, early in April, they will produce plants fit to trans- 

 plant in May, which will make good Cabbages for summer 

 use. 



The seed of Red Cabbage may be sown towards the end' 

 of April or early in May, and that of Savoys and late Cab- 

 bage in general, may be sown at two or three different times, 

 between the tenth and twenty-fifth of May, in fresh rich 

 ground. The young plants will require to be watched at 

 this season of the year, and if they are attacked by insects, 

 recourse* must be had to the ingredients recommended in 

 the general directions; these, if used every evening until the 

 plants get strong, will bring them forward for transplanting 

 in the second or third week in, July. 



The most certain way of raising good strong plants in the 

 summer season, is to sow the seed in a moderately shaded 

 border^ in shallow drills drawn three or four inches apart. 

 One ounce of seed sown in this manner, will occupy a bor- 

 der of about four feet in width by twelve in length, and 

 produce about four thousand stout plants; whereas if seed 

 be sown broadcast, as is the usual custom, two ounces of 

 seed may not produce so many good plants, as the one ounce 

 on the plan recommended. 



The Bergen, and other large kinds, should be transplanted 

 in rows thirty inches asunder, and the plants about two feet 

 apart in the rows ; the Savoys and smaller sorts may be 

 placed from four to six inches nearer every way. Cabbage 

 succeeds best in a fresh rich soil, and the ground should be 

 deeply hoed, at least three times, during their growth. 



Ihe Brassica Rapa, or Turnip Cabbage, produces its; 



