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top : it is principally grown by the market-gar- 

 dener. 



2. Dwarf Green. A very excellent variety, the 

 most proper for small and private gardens: it is 

 very hardy, and keeps longer in use than the other 

 sorts. 



3. Yellow Savoy is very good and hardy of its 

 kind : a few may be raised by way of variety. 



Culture. The savoy, like all the rest of the 

 cabbage tribe, requires a good soil, and one that 

 has been previously well enriched with dung ; if not 

 so, a good coat must be worked in at the time of 

 sowing or planting : the former method is prefer- 

 able, as in very rich ground, or ground newly 

 manured with rank dung, savoys and any of the 

 brassica tribe are not so well flavoured. 



If savoys are required early, seed must be sown 

 towards the end of March ; but for the principal 

 crop not before the middle of April, as then there 

 will be plenty of time for them to grow and get 

 full-headed before they are required for general use 

 in November. The savoy is a very useful vegetable, 

 and every garden should have a share of them. 



Some authors advise three or four sowings for a 

 succession ; but in private gardens the author thinks 

 it needless ; much, however, depends on the ground 

 there is to spare, and other local matters, of which 

 the gardener will be the best judge. 



In regard to planting out, &c., the reader is re- 

 ferred to what is stated under the head of Brussels 

 Sprouts, as the culture of that vegetable entirely 

 coincides with that of the savoy 



It is sometimes customary to plant out the sum- 

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