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such appear they must be pinched off; but the dis- 

 ease does not occur on newly trenched ground. Snails 

 are worse in April than in March, and worse in May, 

 if the weather be wet, than in April; but this ene- 

 my is altogether overcome by having your plants 

 strong, early set, and so managed that their growth 

 is never suspended. By attention to the above 

 methods, you will see your cabbage field in ample 

 foliage whilst your neighbours are only planting, 

 or needlessly filling blanks, and complaining that 

 the garden is a mere waste of money, as nothing 

 can be saved from the enails. Of the cabbage crop, 

 a few stocks, not of the largest size, but chosen for 

 their firmness, may be sunk in a furrow with their 

 heads down, and covered up to the roots; by which 

 means they keep all winter, and may be used in a 

 season when the garden yields fewest varieties. 

 There is a red sort which is used for pickles, and 

 sour krout. If you are afflicted with scurvy, and 

 subject to no acidity of stomach, you may indulge 

 in vinegar and cabbage leaves. 



Carrot. This root should grow eighteen inches 

 long and nine in circumference; but for the table 

 it is better at half that size. It is saccharine and 

 nutritive, admirable for milch cows, and not bad 

 food for horses. Well boiled, it may be eaten to 

 the amount of three ounces to the sedentary, and 

 by labourers as they please. The cultivation of it 

 is in most places of this country the greatest trial 

 of the gardener's patience and skill. When the 

 plants have attained the thickness of a feather, are 



