380 The Kitchen Garden. [Aug. 



Obferve, it is the prick y-feeded kind that is to be 

 fbwn now, for this fort will beft endure the cold and wet 

 in win er. 



When the plants are come up, and got leaves an inch 

 broad, or thereabouts, they mult then be thinned, and 

 cleared from weeds.. This may be done, either b-y hand or 

 lioe, obfervingto thin the plants regularly, leaving them- 

 the diilance of four inches, or thereabouts, from one an- 

 ether; they will then have proper room to fpread, and 

 gather ftrength, to be able to endure the cold. 



Befides, when fpinach is allowed room to fpread itfelf 

 regularly, the plants will produce very large and thick 

 leaves ; and every fuch leaf is wor:h three that is pro- 

 duced from fuch plants as crowd one another. 



S-Q^voing Cabbage Seed. 



Sow early cabbage feed, to produce plants for the fer- 

 vice of next fummer. Alfo fow the large autumn kinds to 

 fucceed the early crops, and for autumn fu^ply,. &c. 



The proper early forts to fow now, are the early and 

 large fugar-loaf, the early Batieffea and Yorkjliirg kindi,. 

 &c. See the catalogue^ 



But this early feea rnuil not be Town, yntil ^me time 

 between the fixth and twelfth of the month j nor muft it 

 be fown later ; there being an advantage in fowing it 

 juft at that time J for was the feed to be fown fooner* 

 many of the plants would be apt to run to feed in March ;. 

 and was it to be fown later in the month, the plants 

 would not get proper llrength before winter. 



Therefore, at the time mentioned, dig an open fpot 

 of rich ground, and mark out beds, three feet fix inches 

 broad ; then fow the (ted moderately thick, and imme- 

 diately rake it in with a light and even hand.. 



Sow alfo the feed of the large hollow, large round, the 

 long-fided and other large late kinds of cabbages in the 

 beginning of this montli, for a full crop of large cab- 

 bages to fucceed the early plantation next fumm.er, and 

 for general autumji fervlce this time twelvemonth. 



But the feed of the late kinds may be fown five or fix 

 days fooner than the Yorkfhire and other early kinds of 

 cabbages, as they are not fo apt to run to feed in the 

 fpjng, &c.. See the Kitchen-garden Catalogue. 



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