THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



keep them clean of weeds, under-hanging and with- 

 ered leaves, let them not suffer drought while young 

 and keep snails from them. If the ground and seed 

 be good, you may expect good heads, which if you 

 spend not altogether before frost (which spoils 

 them), take them up in a dry day, and ty them in 

 pairs to hang in a dry room for use. The best seed 

 comes from Candia. 



There be many cabbages ; sow the savoy, and such 

 tender sorts,as cole-flowers, albeit not so tender; sow 

 the great, white and red, in the full moon in July; 

 plant them f urth in October at three foot distance, 

 in well-manured ground. Set some also in March : 

 but then the gar d'ner finds multiplicity of business ; 

 therefore it's his wisdom to put as much work by 

 hand as can suffer it, at least to have all his grounds 

 fallowed before winter. You may hang up your 

 cabbages in November, as cole-flowers; but plant 

 some of the best and hardest for seed, up to the neck. 

 When they shoot, support with stakes and ropes; 

 when full, cut and lay on a clothe to perfect : but 

 choice the upright stem in the heart and its branches, 

 rejecting the lower branches. 



Catch snails and worms that gnaw the young 

 sprouting plants, and set nets for birds at the same 



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