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The richer the foil, by much the better ; 

 'It ought, if the cabbages are cxpedled to be 

 very large, to be either a rich black crumbly 

 clay, or a clayey loam, and fuch as throws 

 out great crops of other kinds : A fandy foil 

 will do pretty well, if it be rich, but gravels 

 are bad. The land cannot be too much 

 manured for them ; as Mr. Scroope appre- 

 hends that no crop will pay fo well for rich 

 manuring (if the foil is not very good) as 

 cabbages ; and, for this purpofe, he prefers 

 compolls of different forts, well mixed, or 

 horle dung. 



The land is f rfl to be ploughed in Ocio" 

 ber^ to turn in the old ftubble (the cabbages 

 being a fallow). The next ftirring is to be 

 given in March^ and two more as foon as 

 dry feafons will permit. If the weather is 

 very dry, it fhould be harrowed after every 

 ploughing : The tvsro laft earths itrike it into 

 beds four feet wide, and arch them up. He 

 never, in any of thefe /lirrings, ploughs 

 deeper than for common crops. 



The feed is to be fown early in fpring, 

 upon a bed of well-dug good earth, one 

 pound is fuiKcient for fix acres of plants. 



The end of May\ or the beginning of 

 yu7it\ is the time to plant ; they are taken 

 from the feed-bed, and fet bv the eve alon": 

 the tops of the beds, two feet from plant to 

 plant. It is a rule never to v%'ater, which 

 greatly encreafcs the trouble iind expence 

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