CULTIVATION OF 



of any for fpring plants, it being natural 

 ly foft, and they will take root much 

 fooner than in any other kind of foil, and 

 it fhould be dunged and plowed juft be- 

 Fore it is intended to be planted; 



AFTER it is plowed it fhould be well 

 harrowed, and then a flial low furrow drawn 

 by the plow at four feet diftance from one 

 another, and the cabbages planted in the 

 bottom of it at two feet and a half diftance; 



WHEN the cabbages are grown to have 

 three or four inches of ftem, the weeds 

 fhould be hoed between the plants in the 

 rows, and the loofe earth that was thrown 

 up in making the furrow, fhould be drawn 

 clofe up to the {terns. 



V 

 ALL the cabbages that are planted in the 



different grounds that were winter plants^ 

 about the end of June fhould have two 

 furrows drawn by the plow between every 

 row, throwing the mould up to the cab- 

 bages ; after which it fhould be drawn 

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