i> .] THE AUE1.ICAN GARDENER. HSl 



from the surface, dig, or hoe deep, the rest of the 

 ground. Thus the crop will be brought to perfec- 

 tion. As to sorts, the earliest is the Early Dwarf, 

 (sometimes called the Early Salisbury ;) the next 

 is the Early Sea Green ; then comes the Early 

 York. Perhaps any one of them may do ; but the 

 first will head ten days sooner than the last. The 

 Sugar-loaf, sweetest and richest of all cabbages, if 

 sown and transplanted when Early Yorks are, will 

 head nearly a month later. It is an excellent cab- 

 bage to come in in July and August. Some sown 

 three weeks later will carry you through Septem- 

 ber and October ; and some sown in June and 

 transplanted in July, will carry you on till Christ- 

 mas. For the winter use, there really needs no- 

 thing but the Dwarf Green Savoy. When good 

 and true to kind it is very much curled and of a 

 very deep green. It should be sown as soon as 

 the ground is at all warm, and planted out as soon 

 as stout enough. By November it will have large 

 and close heads weighing from 5 to 8 pounds each. 

 This is the best of all winter-cabbages. If you 

 have Drwn-heads, or other large cabbages, the 

 time of sowing and that of transplanting are the 

 same as those for the Savoy. But, let me observe 

 here, that the early sorts of cabbage keep, during 

 winter, as well as the large, late sorts. It is an 

 error to suppose, that those cabbages only, which 

 will not come to pe'rfection till the approach of 

 winter, will keep well. The Early York, sown in 

 June, will be right hard in November, and will 

 keep as well as the Drum-head, or any of the coarse 

 and strong-smelling cabbages. The Early Yorks 

 are not so big as the Drum-heads ; bu<t, observe, 

 that as the former require but 16 inches distance, 

 and the latter 3 feet, five of the former stand on 



