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When finally planting out, be sure to plant them at least 
thirty inches or three feet apart from each other, and where 
there is any danger of insect injury to stems or roots, place a 
little soot or lime close up to and around the collar of each 
plant immediately after planting. 
A good additional precaution against injury from frost, is 
to lay all the plants with their heads to the north, in the 
month of November. They may be further protected in very 
severe weather by spreading litter or bracken among them. 
And persons who have pits, frames, or empty greenhouses 
may lift the broccoli and pack them close together with a 
little soil aLout their roots. A large number may be packed 
in a small space in this way, and saved trom destruction, 
when other measures have been partly or entirely neglected. 
After a very severe winter that has destroyed many 
broccoli and most other green stuff, a good field of broccoli 
would be worth from £25 to £50 per acre. 
CABBAGE.— (Brassica olevacea capitata). 
The culture of cabbage is so commonly well known that 
a detailed account of it will be quite superfluous, and I shail 
offer only a few hints thereon. 
For cutting very early in spring, the seed should be sown 
about the sixteenth of August. An earlier sowing might be 
made on the seventh or eighth of the month, but the first- 
mentioned date is generally the safest. 
Prick out, as soon as the plants are in rough leaf, three 
or four inches apart. Plant out into final quarters about the 
beginning of October. Ellam’s Early should be planted in 
rows fifteen inches apart, and ten or twelve inches apart in 
the rows. Early Offenham and Mein’s No. 1 are larger 
varieties and must have more space given them. 
These early cabbages should, in spring, be frequently 
hoed, the hoeing wil: prevent the growth of weeds, admit the 
warmth of the sun’s rays to the roots, and prevent the escape 
of moisture to some extent from below in dry weather. Thus 
the development of the crop will be materially accelerated 
and be ready some days earlier, a circumstance all good 
market gardeners are not slow to avail themselves of, making, 
as it will to them, a difference in the returns of, perhaps, £10 
or £15 per acre. 
