V. 



CABBAGES. 



November ; for, if they get too forward, they will either 

 be greatly injured by a sharp winter, or will, by a mild 

 winter, be made to run up to seed in the spring, instead 

 of having heads. In general, in the south of England, 

 these cabbages, if properly treated, and of a right-early 

 sort/ will have good white loaves early in April, or, at 

 latest, by the middle of April. These are succeeded 

 by others sowed early in the spring- especially by 

 the sugar-loaf, which, if sowed in the spring, will 

 produce fine heads in the months of July, August, 

 and September, and some sowed a little later will 

 carry you through to the month of November. Early 

 Forte sowed in June will follow these. For winter 

 use, there really needs nothing but the savoy, and the 

 dwarf green is the best of that kind. When true to its 

 kind, it is very much curled, and of a very deep green. 

 It should be sowed about the middle of April, pricked out 

 in the manner before described, but at larger distances, 

 because it is a larger plant, and because it ought to ac- 

 quire a good size of stem before it goes out into the 

 ground, the time for final planting being in the hot 

 month of July, and the distances being more extensive 

 than those of the smaller cabbages. Some savoys sowed 

 about a month after the main crop, and planted out six 

 weeks later than the main crop, will give you greens in 

 the winter, far preferable to any Cale. Early cabbages 

 also, sowed and put out about the same time ; and planted 

 in rows very close to each other, afford greens all the 

 winter long. By November, the green savoys, first 

 planted out, will have large and close heads. The drum- 

 head*, and other large cabbages, are wholly unfit for a 

 garden. The red cabbage is raised and cultivated in the 



