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so severe, will take no barm. It may be sown 

 without danger in November. In case March turns 

 out very wet, and your sowing is driven into April, 

 it is twenty to one that the crop will suffer. 



The preceding is the method pursued by some 

 persons, and with success ; but I must observe, 

 that the Suffolk system is quite different ; and as 

 the crop in that county, abounds far more than 

 in any other of the kingdom, there being perhaps 

 more carrots in it than in all the rest of England 

 together, much attention is necessarily to be paid 

 to their ideas and praclice ; and that is, universally, 

 to sow nearly about the '25th of March, and not 

 to plough till then. 



CABBAGES. 



The fields designed for cabbages in April or 

 May, and ploughed in October on to the ridge, 

 should this month, if the weather will admit, re- 

 ceive an earth, reversing the ridges, but not stirring 

 flat. This will have good effects in pulverizing the 

 soil, which it may be supposed to want, as it con- 

 sists only of stubbles turned up in autumn. This 

 is a point that should be attended to ; for cabbages 

 are always to be considered as a fallow, in which 

 light their importance must appear sufficiently great. 

 As this tillage is the ilr-t that marks the land for 

 the crop (all stubbles being ploughed in autumn, for 

 whatever crops designed), it will be proper here to 

 speak more particularly of the preparation and de- 

 sign of the culture. 



Cabbages flourish to very great profit on all good 



soils, 



