42 2 KITCHEN GARDEN DISPLaVES. 



fome planted a foot diftance, all for faU 

 cabbaging. 



However, for general fowing, the proper 

 feafon is the middle or latter end of February, 

 March, and April ; when Tow larger portions 

 for principal early and firft main crops, on 

 wfirm borders, and on any four feet wide 

 beds, and in open compartments ; all fowed 

 broad-caft, and rake in the (eed, the plant* 

 both to remain where fowed, and thinned a 

 foot afunder, and for tranfplanting that dif- 

 tance, and fome may be gathered in the feed 

 beds in young open growth in Spring, efpe- 

 ciafly of the white cabbage and honey let- 

 tuces, till the principal plants advance to a 

 cabbaged growth ; ohferving, according as 

 the plants, defigned for cabbaging, advance 

 in growth three to four or five inches, plant 

 out a good portion in rows a foot or fifteen 

 inches apart, and a foot afunder in the rows, 

 and watered; thofc in the feed-bed thin by 

 hand or fmall hoeing the fame diflance, the 

 different crops will cabbage, fome moderately 

 in May, but more fully in June, and in full 

 perfection in July. 



Continue fowing in April and May, for 

 principal fucceffional Summer crops, and in 

 June and July, and beginning of Augult, to 

 have a plentiful fucceflion continued till Au- 

 tumn and Winter; and of each crop, when of 

 proper growth, iranfplant plentiful fupplies in 

 fhoweryweather the above-men tioneddillances, 

 and thin thofe remaining in the feed-beds in 

 the fame order, and thus the plants of thefe 

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