New Principles of Gardening. 
The red Cabbage is alfo worth our Notice, in Refpe& to 
its making a fine Sallet when pickled, or eaten raw with Oyl 
and Vinegar, being fliced very {mall. 
N. B. That the beft Cabbages, dc. are produced from fuch 
Stalks as are very fhort, and indeed, fome are fo very fhort, as 
for the Cabbage, when growing, to almoft reft upon the 
Ground. 
Colly-flowers are of the Cole Race, and their Leaves not 
much unlike the Colewort ; but as this Plant is notin Seafon, 
during thefe Months of Fanuary, February and March, 1 fhall 
refer its Defcription to the proper Seafon. 
3. Their Temperature. 
All Coleworts, and others of the cole Race, are dry and 
binding. 
4. Their Medicinal Virtues. 
The Nature of Cabbages, gc. are fuch, that when they arc 
boiled moderately, they are loofening, and when over much, 
aftringent. 
5. The Parts for ufe are, 
The young Plants in the Spring, when well grown, their 
Leaves cabbaged; and afterwards their tender Sprouts, which 
fpring from the feveral Joints or Buds of the Stalks. 
6. The Quantity to be eaten is at Pleafure. 
7. Their Cultivation. 
To be well furnithed with Cabbages and Savoys, in the 
Months of Fanuary, February and March, fow the Seed at three 
different Seafons, viz. March, April, and May, which plant out 
in Rows at two Feet Diftance from cach other 5 and the like in 
the Rows, in Fuly, Augu/?, and beginning of September. That 
is, thofe fown in March, to be tranfplanted out in Fuly 5 thofc 
of April, in Auguft; and thofe of May, in September 5 which 
will very-orderly fuccéed one another, during the Months above- 
mentioned. 
‘When the Heads of Cabbages are cut from the Stalks, ob- 
ferve to cut them off floping, with the Slope or Cut towards 
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