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est capsules of the preceding year; should be sown 
early and thin, and in broad cast ; because if thick- 
ly sown, the plants rot, and if sown late they are 
injured by a too rapid vegetation. The fall of the 
leaf, the dying of the stalk, and the brown color of 
the capsules, indicate the time for harvesting the 
crop. ‘These last are carefully gathered and dried, 
and the seed separated from them. 
Of Cole. 
Cole is a variety of the cabbage, the seed of which 
yields an oil very useful to the arts, and renders the 
plant of great importance in agriculture. Its gene- 
ral management does not differ fram that of any 
other varicty of the kind. When the seed is ripe, it 
must be carefully gathered and separated from its 
chaff. The plantations of cole in Flanders, and par- 
ticularly in the neighborhood of Lisle, Hasbrook 
and Douay, and on a part of the Escant, are immense. 
They generally follow a crop of well dunged, well 
labored potatves, and are followed by one of wheat. 
Palma Christi (the ricinus of botanists) has been 
cultivated in this state; but whether profitably or 
not we do not know. Its seed gives an oil fit for 
lamps, but principally employed asa medicine. The 
cultivation of this plant has been tried in the southern 
parts of France, but not on a large scale, as it was 
found to require much ground and to give few seeds, 
which ripen only in succession. In Carolina, the 
stem attains the height of ten or twelve feet, and a 
diameter of four or five inches. As an ornamental 
shrub, the palma christi is much to be recommended. 
