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|>ort their Stems, to prevent their 

 being broke off by the Wind ; md 

 if the Weather ftiould be very hot 

 and dry, you fl;ould refrefh them 

 with Water once a Week, which 

 will greatly promote their Seeding, 

 efpecially at the time when they 

 are in Flower. 



When the Pods begin to change 

 brown, you will do well to cut 

 off the extreme Part of every Shoot 5 

 which will flrcngthen your Seeds : 

 And it is generally obferv'd, that 

 thofe Seeds which grov/ near the 

 Top of the Shoots, are very fubjedi 

 to run to Seed before they cab- 

 bage j fo that by this there will be 

 no Lofs, but a great Advantage, 

 efpecially if you have more Regard 

 to the Quality than to the Quanti- 

 ty of the Seeds ; which indeed is 

 not always the Cafe, when it is 

 intended for Saiej but thofe who 

 fave it for their own Ufe, fhould 

 be very careful to have it good. 



When your Seeds begin to ripen, 

 you mult be particularly careful 

 that the Birds do not deftroy it ; 

 for they are very fond of thefe 

 Seeds. In order to prevent their 

 Mifchief, fomeufeold Nets, which 

 they throw over their Seeds, to 

 prevent their getting to it : But 

 this will not always do ; for unlefs 

 the Nets are very ftrong, they will 

 force their way through them, as . 

 I have often leen : but the bell 

 Method I know, is to get a Quan- 

 tity of Birdlime, and dawb over a 

 parcel of {lender Twigs, which 

 fhould be failen'd at each end to 

 flronger Sticks, and placed near 

 the upper Part of the Seed, in dif- 

 ferent Places, fo that the Birds may 

 alight upon them, by which means 

 they will be faftned therero j where 

 you mufl: let them remain for a 

 confiderable Time, if they cannot 

 get off themfelves : And although 



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there fliould not above two or three 

 Birds be caul^h^ yet it will fuffi- 

 ciently terrify the reft, that they 

 will not come to that Place again 

 for a confiderable Time, (as I have 

 expericnc'd.) 



When your Seeds are fully ripe, 

 you muft cut it off j and after dry- 

 ing it, threih it out and preferve 

 it in Bags for Ufe. 



But in planting of Cabbages for 

 Seed, I would advife never to plant 

 more than one Sort in a Place, or 

 near one another. As for Exam- 

 ple : Never plant red and -white 

 Cabbages near each other, nor Sa- 

 voy with either white or red Cab- 

 bages: For I am very certain they 

 will, by the Commixture of their 

 Effluvia, produce a Mixture of 

 Kinds : And it is wholly owing to 

 this Neglect, that the Gardeners 

 rarely lave any good red Cabbage- 

 feed m England, but are obliged to 

 procure frefli Seeds from abroad, as 

 liippoling the Soil or Climate of 

 England alters them from Red to 

 White, and of a mix'd Kind be- 

 tween both j whereas if they would 

 plant red Cabbages by themfelves 

 for Seed, and not fuflrer any other 

 to be near them, they might con- 

 tinue the Kind as good in Eng- 

 land, as in any other Part of the 

 World. 



Colliflowers have "of late Years 

 been lo far improv'd in England, 

 as to exceed in Good nefs and Mag- 

 nitude what are produced in moft 

 Parts of Europe, and by the Skill of 

 the Gardener are continued for Se- 

 veral Months together , but the 

 moft common Seafon for them is 

 in May, June, and July, I Ihall 

 therefore begin with Directions for 

 obtaining them in this Seafon. 



Having procured a Parcel of good 



Seed, of an early Kind, you mull 



fow it on the Tenth Qf Augufi^ 



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