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SOWING CAULIFLOWER SEED. 



Cauliflower seed may be sown, any time this month, in the open 

 ground, to raise plants for heading in October, &c. 

 For the further treatment of cauliflowers, see May. 



CABBAGES. 



As early in this month as possible plant out your general crops 

 of cabbage plants, observing to set all the early heading kinds at the 

 distance of two feet every way, and all the late sorts at that of 

 three feet. 



As to soil and preparation, 'the nearer you approach in both to 

 that directed for cauliflowers, the larger cabbages you will have; but 

 where they are desired very early, you must adapt the soil and situa- 

 tion to that purpose. 



Some of the cabbage and savoy plants which were sown in March, 

 for a succession of young summer and autumn cabbages, and a for- 

 ward autumn crop of savoys, should be thinned out and pricked into 

 nursery-beds, to get strength before they are planted out for good. 



Let this be done when the plants have leaves one or two inches 

 broad ; prepare beds of good earth about three feet and a half wide, 

 in an open situation, and let the largest plants be drawn out regu- 

 larly from the seed-bed, and planted in those prepared for them, at 

 four or five inches distance every way. Water them immediately, 

 and repeat it occasionally in dry weather. 



The smaller plants which are left in the seed-beds, should be 

 cleared from weeds ; give them a good watering to settle the earth 

 about their roots, loosened in drawing out the others ; they will then 

 grow strong, and in two or three weeks be in fine order for trans- 

 plantation. 



SOWING CABBAGE SEEDS. 



Sow now a general assortment of cabbage seeds, such as early 

 York, early sugar-loaf, and early Battersea, to succeed those sown 

 in March, and large late Battersea, large late sugar-loaf, flat Dutch, 

 drum-head, large English, large Scotch, flat-sided, and Savoys, for 

 autumn and winter use. Sow also the seed of the red pickling cab- 

 bage, to succeed those sown in the former months. The earlier you 

 sow all these kinds, the larger and better cabbages will you have. 



Sow these seeds tolerably thin, in open beds or borders, and keep 

 them free from weeds, till fit for planting out ; or if they are trans- 

 planted into other beds, when about four inches high, it will greatly 

 strengthen them, and render them in a much better condition for 

 final transplanting. 



SOWING BORECOLE, OR FRINGED CABBAGE. 



The varieties of this are 1. G-reen curled. 2. Red curled. 

 3. Thick-leaved curled. 4. Finely fringed. 5. Siberian, or Scotch 

 kale. 



