

V. BURNET, CABBAGE. 



November these begin to be in perfection, and continue 

 to be an excellent vegetable all the winter. The time of 

 sowing the seed is the fore-part of April. The treatment 

 of the plants, until planted out, the same as that of the 

 cabbage ; and the distances at which the plants ought 

 to stand, the same as those mentioned for the broccoli, 

 these being also tall things and requiring much room. 

 Much care is necessary in the saving of the seed of this 

 plant, which, as I have observed before, has an open 

 spreading crown at the top. If you mean to save seed, 

 you must cut off this crown, and let the seed-stems and 

 flowers come out no-where but from the little cabbages 

 themselves. It is, most likely, owing to negligence, in 

 this respect, that we hardly ever see such a thing as real 

 Brussels sprouts in England 3 and it is said that it is pretty 

 nearly the same in France, the proper care being taken 

 no-where, apparently, but in the neighbourhood of 

 Brussels. 



128. BURNET is a very well-known grass, or cattle- 

 plant. Some persons use it in sallads, for what reason I 

 know not, except that, when cut or bruised, it smells like 

 cucumber : its taste is certainly most disagreeable : it 

 appears to me to be of no use in a good garden : it is 

 perennial, and, if curiosity should induce any one to have 

 it in a garden, it can be propagated either from seed, or 

 from a parting of the roots, and one square foot of ground 

 will be certainly enough to let it have. 



129. CABBAGE. Very different, indeed, is this article 

 from the last ; for, here we have a plant, universally 

 used, growing easily in almost every sort of soil, and 



