VEGETABLES 21 



the frames can be opened in the daytime if 

 the weather is favourable, and later on cautiously 

 during the night They should be well watered 

 with tepid water when dry, and thinned out, so that 

 they should not touch one another. 



Always press the soil well down after planting. 

 Seed can be sown in the open ground in April, and 

 will be ready to thin out in the middle of June. 

 Savoys can also be repeated in the middle of July 

 to the middle of August. 



When ready for planting, the smaller grow- 

 ing varieties should be set eighteen inches apart 

 in the rows, with the same distance between, but 

 the larger growing sorts must be planted two feet. 

 They require frequent hoeing. 



It is very necessary that all old stumps of 

 cabbages should be cleared away and burned, and 

 the ashes returned to the ground. This is a great 

 preventive to clubbing, as great numbers of larvae 

 are thus destroyed. 



Cabbages are often attacked by caterpillars of 

 the common dart moth ; they will hide under clods 

 and in cracks in the earth, and by watering round 

 the plants thoroughly with soapy water they will 

 often show themselves. Soot scattered round the 

 plants and chopped in with a hoe will keep these 

 pests at bay. Cabbages are also liable to mildew 

 and ambury, and many insects, such as aphis 

 mamestra, cabbage fly and cabbage butterfly, 

 cabbage moths, and cabbage garden pebble moths. 



Ambury is also called club root, and appears in 

 the shape of a wart on the stem close to the roots, 

 which contains a white maggot, the larvae of the 

 weevil. The wart should be removed and the plant 

 placed back in the earth. This pest mostly attacks 



