CABBAGE. o9 



from the first of April to the first of May, as directed for the 

 September sowing. The sorts are Early Dutch, Drumhead, 

 Bergen, Savoys, and Red Dutch ; sow also a few large York. 

 They will come in July or August, and be found useful for 

 filling up vacant ground or patching. Transplanting may be 

 in May, June, and July, as circumstances will admit. When 

 planting out in Summer, as the weather is frequently very 

 dry and hot, the ground should be fresh dug, the plants care- 

 fully lifted (having given them a copious watering the evening 

 previous), and their roots dipped into a puddle or mush of 

 cow dung, soot, or earth, before planting ; then dibble them in 

 firmly, give a good watering, and a certain growth will follow. 

 The rows may be two feet apart, and eighteen inches from 

 plant to plant. The after culture the same as directed for 

 early Cabbage. When Cabbage heads have been cut, the 

 stumps should be dug up every week and deposited in the 

 rubbish heap. It is waste to allow them to sprout and grow, 

 or decay and evaporate in the air. Some seasons, the fly (a 

 small black beetle) destroys the plants as soon as they appear 

 above the ground. Soot, air-slacked lime, and wood ashes 

 sprinkled over them, is in part a preventive. Others destroy 

 them by having a hen cooped, allowing the young chickens to 

 have free access to the plants, from which they exterminate 

 the flies. I invariably grow my scarce seed in boxes elevated 

 eighteen inches above the ground, entirely out of the Teach of 

 this insect, which does not appear on elevated objects. This 

 operation requires more attention in watering, but a certainty 

 is always gained by it. 



Wintering Cabbage. — If you have not a dry, airy, vegeta- 

 ble cellar, nor an open shed to spare for burying them, take a 

 sheltered part of the garden and bury the roots, stalk, and 

 part of the head in the earth, over which, in severe weather, 

 place a few boards, or a light sprinkling of straw. In Southern 

 latitudes this is unnecessary ; there they can withstand the 



