MAHCII.] REYNOLDS' CABBAGE-TURNIP. 



on the ridge, by reversing. If a % s much time can 

 be spared this month from seed tillage (which are 

 over the most important part of tillage), as in 

 April, it will be now advisable to plough those 

 lands also that are for the Midsummer crop, by 

 which means there will be a certainty of gaining a 

 fine tilth, late in spring, which is the best method 

 of destroying seed weeds. 



In the beginning of this month seed should be 

 sown a second time. The seed, and seed-bed, 

 must be proportioned to the intended quantity of 

 crop. A good rule is, to sow one pound of seed 

 to every three acres of land intended to be cropped. 

 For a seed-bed, a rich piece of land summer-fal- 

 lowed, and dunged with rotten stuff, is to be 

 chosen. See the Calendar for last month, for par- 

 ing and burning for a nursery ; also for the sorts 

 of cabbage. 



REYNOLDS' CABBAGE-TURNIP. 



This month, if the weather be favourable, is the 

 proper time for sowing the seed of this plant in a 

 seed-bed, for transplantation in June. It is a re- 

 markable circumstance, that very great and suc- 

 cessful exertions were made in the culture of this 

 plant thirty years ago, but that it went out of ge- 

 neral use, without any sufficient reason ; for its 

 great merit was then well known. Long since that 

 period the ruta baga, or Swedish turnip, was intro- 

 duced, but in Norfolk the depredations of the fly 

 upon this plant have been so great, that it is also 

 in danger of being given up. As there is no point 



of 



