CABBAGE. Q5 



with three fingers, imagining that they would 

 the sooner come to maturity ; others threw 

 trefoil and nitre mixed upon the leaves for 

 the same purpose \ it was also thought to 

 make them boil green. 



Cabbage will not, at the present day, 

 bring a price to enable the grow T er to use 

 nitre; but we have often been surprised that 

 sea- weed should not have been more used on 

 the coast as a garden manure, when the ad- 

 vantage of the saline particles is so generally 

 acknowledged. 



The ancients manured their land with 

 asses dung, where they intended to plant coles. 

 " If you would have very fine coleworts, 

 both for sweet taste and for great cabbage," 

 observes Pliny, " first let the seed be sown in 

 ground thoroughly digged more than once 

 or twice, and well manured ; secondly, you 

 must cut off the tender spring and young 

 stalks that seem to put out far from the 

 ground, and such as run too high ; thirdly, you 

 must raise mould or manure up to them, so 

 that there may be no more above the ground 

 than the very top :" these kinds of coles, he 

 says, are justly called Tritiana, for the three- 

 fold care about them. "There are," continues 

 he, " many kinds of coleworts in Rome, such 



