30 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



some in salads. When bruised, or cut, it smells like 

 cucumber. It is a perennial. 



CABBAGE. 



In the open ground you may put your seed rows at 

 six inches distance, and put the seeds thin in the row. 

 As soon as up, thin the plants to three inches in the 

 row. 



To liave fine cabbages, of any sort, the plants must 

 be twiv",e transplanted. First, they should be taken from 

 the seed bed (where they have been sown in drills near 

 to each other.) and put out into fresh dug, well broken 

 ground, at six inches apart every way. By standing 

 here about fifteen or twenty days, they get straight and 

 strong, stand erect, and have a s-traight and stout stem. 

 Out of this plantation they come nearly all of a size ; 

 the roots of all are in the same state ; and, they strike 

 quicker into the ground where they are to stand for a 

 crop. 



Put them in rows. Plant as deep as you can without 

 injury to the leaves. As to distances they must be pro- 

 portioned to the size which the cabbages usually come 

 to. However, for the very small sorts, the early dwarf, 

 and the early sea-green, a foot apart in all directions is 

 enough. The next size is the Early York, which may 

 have 16 inches every way. The sugar-loaf may have 

 20 inches. The Battersea and Savoy two feet and a 

 half The large sorts, as the drum-head and others, 

 three feet at least. Now. with regard to tillage, keep 

 the ground clear of weeds. But, whether there be weeds 

 or not, hoe between the plants in ten days after they are 

 planted. All the larger sorts of cabbages should, about 

 the time that their heads are beji^innino^ 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 surface, dig, or hoe deep the rest of 



