COL 



COM 



not great, it is better to allow eight 

 pounds ; for if the plants are too 

 close in any part, they may be 

 easily thinned, when the ground is 

 hoed ; which must be performed 

 in the same manner as is practised 

 for turnips, with this difference on- 

 ly, of leaving these much nearer 

 together ; for as they have fibrous 

 roots and slender stalks, so they do 

 not require near so much room. — 

 These plants should have a second 

 hoeing,about five or six weeks after 

 the first, which, if well performed in 

 dry weather, will entirely destroy 

 the weeds, so that they will re- 

 quire no farther culture, 



"Where there is not an imme- 

 diate want of food, these plants had 

 better be kept as a reserve for hard 

 weather, or spring feed, when 

 there may be a scarcity of other 

 green food. If the heads are cut 

 oflfand the stalks left in the ground, 

 they will shoot again early in the 

 spring, and produce a good second 

 crop in April, which may be either 

 fed off, or permitted to run to 

 seeds, as is the practice where 

 this is cultivated for the seeds : 

 But if the first is fed down, there 

 should be care taken that the cat- 

 tle do not destroy the stems, or 

 pull them out of the ground. As 

 this plant is so hardy as not to be 

 destroyed by frost, so it is of great 

 service in hard winters for feeding 

 of ewes ; for when the ground is 

 so hard frozen as that turnips can- 

 not be taken up, these plants may 

 be cut off for a constant supply. — 

 This will afford late food after the 

 turnips are run to seed ; and if it 

 is afterwards permitted to stand for 

 seed, one acre will produce as 



much as, at a moderate computa- 

 tion will sell for five pounds clear 

 of charges.'' Gardener''s Diction- 

 ary. 



The Rev. Mr. Eliot, who made 

 some trial of this plant, is doubtful 

 whether it will answer for winter 

 feeding in this country, because of 

 the severity of our frosts. But the 

 above author adds — "The curled 

 colewort, or Siberian borecole, is 

 now more generally esteemed than 

 the former, being extremely hardy, 

 so it is never injured by cold, 

 but is always sweeter in severe 

 winters, than in mild seasons."-— 

 A gentleman informs me, that, 

 in Boston, he has made trial 

 ofthis plant, and found that the 

 winter did not injure it. It is fit 

 for the table from December to 

 April. 



I myselfmade trial of three kinds 

 of borecole the last year, in the la- 

 titude of 44. It grew very well till 

 winter ; but not one plant in fifty 

 had any life in it in the following 

 spring. The sorts were the green, 

 the white, and the red. But it is 

 probable that in some parts of 

 New-England, and in warm situa- 

 tions, this plant may be cultivated 

 with advantage ; though not in 

 fields, I think it may in gardens. 



COMPOSITION FOR TREES, 

 a substance discovered, prepared, 

 and applied by Mr. Forsyth for 

 the purpose of removing diseases, 

 defects and injuries in fruit and 

 forest trees. It is directed to be 

 composed in the following mannerj 

 in his " Treatise on the Manage- 

 ment of Trees." 



"Take one bushel of fresh cow- 

 dung, half a bushel of hme rubbish 



