CULTIVATION OF 



IF the autumn is very fine, which often 

 happens, thofe fown firfl will be too 

 large ; and if they Hand through the win- 

 ter many of them will run to feed in the 

 fpring ; but if the autumn prove cold and 

 frofty, as it fometimes does, thofe laft 

 fown will be too fmall and weak, and un- 

 able to refift the cold winds and hard frofts. 



WHEN the plants have got four leaves 

 they mould be pricked out into beds in an 

 open fpot in the garden or in the fields 

 (where hares and rabbits cannot come at 

 them) at four inches diftance every way. 

 If they are planted near walls or hedges it 

 draws them, and they have long items, 

 which makes them weak, and is a great 

 detriment ; for it is the flrong ftifF plants 

 which make the large cabbages. 



ALL thofe that are the leaft acquainted 

 With gardening know, that if the feafon 

 is dry, all young plants, when firft planted 

 out, mould have water, and it would be 

 very fuperfluous to direct it ; but this is 

 5 defigned 



