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should be made from the middle of March to the second week in 

 April, and if the resulting plants are set out in June and July 

 they will then come into use in August and September. If a 

 second and larger sowing be made in the last week of April and 

 the plants set out in July and August they will come into use 

 from October to December. A sowing of a dwarf kind that hearts 

 quickly made in May and again in June will furnish plants yielding 

 nice little heads for use from October onwards, which with the 

 greens produced from the stumps of those that have previously 

 been cut will last until Spring Cabbage comes in. Two excel- 

 lent varieties for this purpose are the London Rosette Colewort 

 Cabbage and the Hardy Winter Colewort, the latter being the 

 more suitable for winter use. Cabbage plants intended to stand 

 the winter are best put out in firm ground which has been enriched 

 for a previous crop, such as that which has previously carried a 

 crop of Onions or other surface-rooting plants whkh have not 

 impoverished the soil too much. The ground must of course have 

 been well manured for the previous crop or good results cannot be 

 expected. A firm stiff rich soil is best for Cabbages, for if grown 

 in loose light soil they do not heart so well, neither is the quality 

 so good. 



Cabbage seed should be sown on light rich land or on that 

 approaching more nearly to such a condition, and the plants should 

 not be allowed to overcrowd each other before they are set out. 

 As soon as large enough to handle, the seedlings should be pricked 

 out from 6 to 8 inches apart, or be thinned out and the remainder 

 transferred to their final positions as soon as they are sufficiently 

 large. The distance to plant Cabbage apart depends on the 

 variety grown ; but from 18 in. to 2 ft. between the rows, and 

 from 15 in, to 1 8 in. between the plants in the rows, will generally 

 be found sufficient if the ground is in good heart. 



CUTTING. A little more attention should be paid to this than 

 is usually the case, as when a commencement to cut is too long 

 deferred a great waste ensues. Supposing Cabbages of such 

 varieties as will begin to turn in from the early part of March till 

 the beginning of summer are planted in autumn, it is folly to wait 

 until the heads in each particular instance become firm or hard 

 before commencing to cut them, as a great many will, unless the 

 demand is equal to the supply, then burst, go to seed, or rot. To 

 obviate this, cutting should begin as soon as the hearts start to 

 form on the more forward of the plants ; and as the stems will 

 break and put forth sprouts which will ultimately form hearts, no 

 loss but a gain really accrues, as they will be fit for cutting before 

 or by the time the first crop of heads is finished. It is the rule in 

 many gardens to reserve the main lot of old plants, after the hearts 

 have been cut in spring, for the purpose of securing a yield of the 



