JUNE. 3-17 



When the manure is spread and turned in, the 

 proper way of planting will be to send women or 

 children in with bundles of plants, to drop them 

 on the tops of the ridges, at about two feet distance. 

 They will lay ready for the men, who may then 

 plant almost as fast as they can walk : but, if they 

 have to get, carry, and set the plants, they will not 

 be able to do near the work they might with better 

 contrivance. The rows at four feet may be planted 

 at five shillings an acre. It is a rule among the 

 cabbage- planters in husbandry, never to water the 

 plants, let the season be as dry as it may, insisting 

 that it is entirely useless. Upon this I shall ven- 

 ture to remark, that in most years, if the land is in 

 fine tilth, and well dunged, this may be right, as 

 the ex pence must be considerable : but I should 

 apprehend that, in very dry seasons, when the 

 new-set plants have nothing but a burning sun on 

 them, that watering would save the lives of vast 

 numbers, and might answer the expence, if a pond 

 is near, and the work done with a water-cart. 



There is one use in cabbages, which appears not 

 to have met with the attention it merits : it is the 

 planting on those lands where turnips have failed. 

 A late-sown crop of those roots comes not often to 

 a profitable amount ; but cabbages planted on the 

 land, without any fresh ploughing, would turn out 

 a beneficial crop for sheep late in the spring : in all 

 probability (unless on very light, sandy, or lime- 

 stone soils), of greater value than the turnips, had 

 they succeeded. 



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