130 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



ith regard to tillage, keep the ground clear jo 

 weeds But, whether there be weeds or not, 

 noe between the plants in ten days after they are 

 planted. The reasons for this are amply stated 

 in Paragraphs 176 to 186. You cannot dig be- 

 tween the plants, which stand at the smallest dis- 

 tances ; but you may, and ought, to dig once, if 

 not twice, during their growth, between all the 

 rest. To prevent a sudden check by breaking all 

 the roots at once, in hot weather, dig every other 

 interval, leave the rest, and dig them a week 

 later. All the larger sorts of cabbages should, 

 about the time that their heads are beginning to 

 form, be earthed up ; that is, have the earth from 

 the surface drawn up against the stem ; and, the 

 taller the plants are, the more necessary this is, 

 and the higher should the earth be drawn. After 

 the earth has been thus drawn up from the sur- 

 face, dig, or hoe deep,, the rest of the ground.- 

 Thus the crop will be brought to perfection. As 

 to sorts, the earliest is the Early Dwarf (some- 

 times called the Early Salisbury ;) the next is 

 the Early Sea Green; then comes the Early 

 York. Perhaps any one of them may do ; but 

 the first will head ten days sooner than the last. 

 The Sugar-loaf, sweetest and richest of all cab- 

 bages, if sown and transplanted when Early 

 Yorks are, will head nearly a month later. It is 

 an excellent cabbage to come in, in July and 

 August. Some sown three weeks later will carry 

 you through September and October ; and some 

 sown in June and transplanted in July, will carry 

 you on till Christmas. For the winter use, there 

 really needs nothing but the Dwarf Green Savoy. 

 *When good and true to kind it is very mu$h 



