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salading as directed in the preceding months. The seeds may 

 now be sown in an open situation where the earth is light and rich, 

 but what you sow towards the end of the month should have a warm 

 exposure. 



Hoe Turnips. 



As your crop of turnips advances in growth, hoe and thin the 

 plants to proper distances; let this be done in a dry day, cutting 

 the weeds up clean with a sharp and middle sized hoe. For gene- 

 ral directions see page 433, 



Sowing Cabbage Seed. 



The proper period for sowing cabbage seed in the middle states 

 to produce early summer cabbages, is between the sixth and tenth 

 of this month, if intended to be transplanted into frames in Octo- 

 ber for winter protection, which is the most preferable method; but 

 if they are designed for remaining in the seed-beds till spring, the 

 period is between the fifteenth and twentieth. However, it will be 

 very proper to make two or three sowings within that time, as it is 

 impossible to say whether the fall may be favourable or otherwise, 

 and therefore the better way is to be prepared in either case by 

 successive crops. 



The consequence of having plants too forward or early is, that 

 they are very subject to run to seed in the spring soon after being 

 planted out; and if the seeds are sown too late, the plants do not 

 acquire sufficient strength before winter to withstand its rigour 

 without extraordinary care. But in either case there is a remedy; 

 that is, if the plants are likely to become too luxuriant and strong, 

 transplant them once or twice in October, and if too backward and 

 weakly, make a slight hot-bed towards the latter end of that month, 

 and prick them out of the seed-bed thereon; this will forward them 

 considerably. 



At all events, I would advise, particularly in the middle states, 

 the first sowing to be made about the tenth or before it, the second 

 four days after, and the third on the eighteenth day of this month, 

 or at any rate within two or three days of these periods; for the 

 difference occasioned at this time by one or two days will in a i'ew 

 weeks be very perceivable and striking. In the eastern states, 

 the first of the month will be a suitable period for sowing a princi- 

 pal crop. 



The kinds proper to be sown now are the early Smyrna, early 

 York, early liattersea, early Russia, and early sugar-loaf cabbages; 

 it would also be very proper to sow at this time some of the large 

 drum-head, ilat Dutch, large English and red pickling kinds, to 

 succeed the other sorts, and to produce fine large heads in the early 

 autumn months; but the seeds of these late kinds may be sown 

 three or four days earlier than the former, as the plants are not so 

 subject to run to seed in spring, 



Sow these seeds in beds of good garden mould, and either cover 

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