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fed on the land at any time, nor other dressing given, ex- 

 cept the third year, as above, for the cabbages. 



This gentleman tried the red garden cabbage, and found 

 • them very hardy, and come to 141b. but they demand more 

 time for growing than green sorts ; of which those streak- 

 ed with red veins arc best, and most durable. He hung 

 those up for seed (or two months aftci- Christmas. Did 

 not approve of setting the stalk only, as the side branches 

 were apt to break ofF; each good plant yielded lib. of 

 seed: he dried it on burdles raised on stakes: and if the 

 ground was fine under them and dunged, it became a seed- 

 bed. 



Mr. Coke has cultivated the large cattle cabbage 13 

 or 14 years, and got very fine crops, which yielded more 

 food than turnips, on good samls : he has had up to 20 

 acres per annum. He sowed the seed in February, and 

 transplanted as soon as the plants were large enough, con- 

 tinuing till the beginning of July. Manured as for turnips, 

 10 loads per acre. The expense the same as that of turnips. 

 Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, has every year a few acres, 

 to use in frosty weather, finding a load of great use for his 

 rows in the morning: he sows the seed in February, and 

 plants in June, the rows three feet by two and dn half: he, 

 is clear that an acre produces double the food of an acre 

 of contiguous turnips ; and does not observe any defedl in 

 rhe barley that follows. 



Mr. RisHTON has cultivated cabbages, and has known 

 as good barley after them, though carted off, as after tur- 

 nips fed late on the land. His method of culture was to 

 sow the seed the first week in February, once to remove 

 the plants, and set them out by the 4th of June : hand' 

 hoed thpin, earthing up : then ran the double earth-board 

 plough between the rows, and the hand-hoes after to draw 

 the ear;h still higher up. He planted by a marking rake, 



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