HOW TO CULTIVATE WINTER GREENS 151 



It is sometimes a decided advantage to grow a 

 mixed crop of winter greens. For instance, the kales, 

 as has been previously stated, are not sufficiently 

 quick in their early growth as to form weed 

 smotherers, and for this reason when sown alone, 

 must generally be sown in rows. 



MIXED WINTER GREENS. 



Sowing in rows is, of course, done with the object 

 of subsequently cleaning the land by horse hoeing, 

 but instead of sowing in rows, a mixed crop of kale 

 and rape in equal parts can be sown .together. The 

 rape will keep the land covered until the kale is 

 firmly established. Again there are some winters 

 during which giant rape seems to be better able to 

 withstand the frost (and what is equally destructive, 

 cold wet prolonged), than are hardy greens, while 

 during other winters, which are equally severe, the 

 rape may be injured and the hardy greens untouched. 



At present it is impossible to account for these vari- 

 ations, but from practical observations, the writer has 

 found that a mixture of hardy greens and rape sown 

 together will, in most winters, better stand hardships 

 than either hardy greens or rape sown alone. For this 

 ^ reason, whilst it is an advantage sometimes to have a 

 • * portion of the land devoted to each separate crop, it is 

 desirable, if a large area is being sown, to mix the 

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RYE AND RAPE WINTER PASTURE. 



Under a certain condition a crop of mixed rye and 

 rape also proves more useful than either crop sown 



