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plants to cultivate, particularly in the more southerly states, as they 

 will there, be in the greatest perfection during the winter months ; 

 they will also, if planted in a gravelly soil and in a sheltered warm 

 situation, bear the winter's of the middle states, and may be kept 

 in great perfection, in the eastern states, if managed as directed in 

 page 184, which see. The deliciousness of their sprouts in spring, 

 surpasses every thing of the kind, which they produce in great 

 abundance. The seeds of either sort may be sown any time this 

 month, and treated in every particular as directed for cabbages. 



The green and red Borecole, is also a very useful green food for 

 sheep ; because, it is not only hardy, but if sown in time, will grow 

 three or four feet high, and may in deep snows be got at by these 

 animals, who frequently suffer much for want of food in such 

 cases. 



Turnep. Cabbage, end Tumefi-rooted Cabbage. 



The turnep cabbage produces its bulb or protuberance, which 

 approaches to roundness, on the stem above ground, immediately 

 under the leaves. It is eatable when young, and about the size 

 of a tolerably large garden turnep. The bulb or protuberance, 

 must be stripped of its thick fibrous rind, and then it may be treated 

 and used as a turnep. Some of their bulbs grow to twenty three 

 inches in circumference and weigh upwards of twelve pounds. 

 The seeds may now be sown and the plants afterwards treated as 

 you do cabbage, only that in earthing up the plants, when grown to 

 a good size, you must be cautious not to cover the globular part, 

 which is to be eaten. They are much more hardy than turneps, 

 and in Europe are cultivated for the feeding of cows and sheep, as 

 well as for table use ; in either case they treat them as they do 

 cabbages, or sow them like turneps, and afterwards hoe them 

 out to proper distances. 



The Turnep-rooted cabbage, has an oblong thick root pretty 

 much of the form of the winter radish, but very large and is a 

 valuable article to cultivate for cattle ; as it produces, with proper 

 care, from twenty-five to thirty tons per acre. It is extremely 

 hardy, and very seldom injured by frost, and would be found an 

 excellent sheep food in April, where the frosts are not overlv des 

 perate. It merits attention from the farmer and is frequently used 

 for culinary purposes, in the same manner as the Turnep-cabbage, 

 The tops and sprouts make delicious greens in spring. 



Brussels' Sprouts and Jerusalem Kale, 



The "Brussels' sprouts is an open headed cabbage, grows very 

 high, and is remarkable for producing a great quantity of excellent 

 sprouts in spring. 



The Jerusalem Kale, is one of the most hardy plants of the cab- 

 bage tribe, it never heads, but, the leaves after being pinched by a 

 smart frost, make most delicious greens, and boil greener than any 

 other of the cabbage kind ; it bears a very severe winter, and affords 

 a grateful supply, when most other plants perish. 



