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The plants are now to be fet in either of thele beds 

 about four inches afunder, moderately watered ; put on 

 the glaffes clofe for a week, then give air by tilting or 

 flioving them down, and taken ciFoccafionally (fee Au- 

 guft) ; and are to be defended all winter occafionally 

 with the glaffes, according to the diredions given in 

 each month. 



Or for want of frames and glalTes, may plant fome in 

 a bed arched over with hoops or rods, and defended in 

 bad weather with mats. 



Cabbage Plants. 



About the middle or latter end of this month, you may' 

 plant out a few early cabbage plants, in the place where 

 they are to remain for cabbaging eaf ly next fummer. 



Choofe a piece of good ground for thefe plants, in a. 

 free fituation, and let fome good rotten dung be fpread 

 over it ; the ground muil then be dug one fprde deep 5; 

 obferving to bury the dung properly in the bottom o£ 

 the trenches, as you proceed in digging. 



The plants are then to be planted in rows, two feet 

 diflant :n the rosv, nnd aUovV the lai^ny dmiinca bevws^a 

 the rows, which will be room enough for tub early plan- 

 tation, as moft of them will be ufed before they grow to 

 any confiderable iize. 



But let the principal fupply of the early cabbage plants 

 remain in the nurfery beds in a warm fituation, till Ja- 

 nuary, February or March, before you plant them out 

 for good ; for it fometimes happens in fevers winters, 

 that many of the plants which are planted cut early inta 

 a more open expofure, are killed by the froft. 



In that cafe you can have recourfe to the nurfery-beds 

 to make good the defefts, or to make new plantations. 



Where there are cabbage plants that flill remain in the 

 feed-bed, let them be tranfpianted into nurfery-beds, the 

 beginning of this month, that they may have time to get, 

 fome llrength before the froily wciither begins. 



Thefe fhould now be planted in a warm fituation. Let 

 a fpot of rich earth be dug, and put in the plants about 

 five or fix inches afunder. 



Broccoli. 



Broccoli plants which Vv^ere lately planted, Ihould nov/ 

 be forwarded as much as pofiible in their growth. Let; 



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