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The drum-head, or great flat-topped cabbage, is a very 

 large ("preading cabbage, generally very broad, and flat at 

 top, and pretty clofe and firna. It is in perfection in Septem- 

 ber, and will continue till Chrillmas, or longer. 



The hollow cabbage is a large, roundifh-oval, hollow cab- 

 bage, which leldom grows hard, is fweet tailed, and comes 

 into perfeftion from Angull to 0£tohtr. 



The muik cabbage is a middle fized, roundifli, hollow, 

 very tender, crifp-eating cabbage, of a miilky fcent. It is in 

 perfctlion from Auguft or September till Chrillmas. 



The giant, or great Scotch cabbage, is an admirable, 

 large, roundilh cabbage, heading very clofc and hard, 

 arrives to pcrfedlion in September and Oiitober, and will 

 continne all winter. It is principally valued as a field cab- 

 bage for feeding cattle j but eligible alio occafionally for 

 family life. 



The American cabbage is it very large roundifh cab- 

 bage, principally for field cidture. 



The Devon [hire cabbage is an exceedingly large very 

 good cabbage, eligible both for the purpofts of the two 

 la II forts, and as a profitable domellic cabbage, about 

 the end of autumn and in winter. 



Tlie red cabbage is a middle-fi/.ed, roundifh, thick- 

 Icavtd cabbage, heading very hard, the whole of a led 

 colour ; the darker the red, and the more thick and flefhy 

 the leaves, without any white in the ribs and veins, the more 

 valuable. It is in perfeftion from autumn until the end of 

 winter, as well as all the fpring months till May ; citeemed 

 principally as a choice pickle, and to eat raw as a fallad. 



All thefe forts or varieties of cabbage are biennial, being 

 raifed from feed, and attaining perfeftion the flrll year ; and 

 the fecond Ihooting up into ilalk, to flower, and feed, foon 

 after wholly perifliing. 



Both the fummer and winter kinds are raifed from feed 

 fowft annually in beds of common earth, from which they 

 mull be afterwards tranfplanted. The chief periods of 

 fowingare autumn and fpring ; thofc plants raifed in the au- 

 tumn arrive at perftftion early the following fummer ; and the 

 fpring-raiied plants cabbage the fame year in fummer and 

 autumn, and attain full perfection. But the larger autumn 

 forts, fown in the fpring, do not in general cabbage fo foon 

 in autumn, or to fo large a fize as the autumn-raiiVd crop, 

 planted out chiefly in the latter-end of that fcafon or the 

 beginning of winter, or partly early in the following fpring, 

 but will be cabbaged in good perfeftion in Auguft and Sep- 

 tember. It is of courfe always proper to fovv fomc in both 

 the autumn and fpring feafons. 



Method of cuUure in the fnnnner h'uids. 



In the culture of thefe plants, for the early and firfl gene- 

 ral fummer crops, the proper forts are the dwarf and other 

 fmall earlier kinds, which it is neceflary to oblerve ihould 

 only be fown in fmall portions ; larger fupplies of tlie Bat- 

 terfea, or, which is probably better, the large fngar-loaf, 

 and Yorkfliire, being put in, the former to come in early as 

 in April and May, and the others to fucceed them in June 

 and July. Some of the early Ruffia cabbage may alfo be 

 provided. 



Thus the autumn fowing fcrves for the early and firft 

 main fpring and fummer crops of the following year, and 

 the fpring lowing for fuccclTion crops in fummer and au- 

 tumn. Where the autumn fowing has been omitted, care 

 ihould be taken to put fome feed in as early in the fpring as 

 the weather will permit, as the beginning or any time in 

 February, or early in Match, in a ivarm iituation for the 

 purpole of early cabbages. 



In order to raife an early and general fummer crop of any or 

 all of thefe forts, a fuitable quantity of good iVefn feed fliould 

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be fown precifely about tlie firft or fecond week in AuguH: 

 as if fown earlier, the plants are apt to run up to feed in 

 Ipring ; and if fown much later, they do not acquire dwc 

 ftrenglh before winter. 



For this purpole a fpot of rich ground in an open cxpo- 

 fure is to be carefully prepared, liy digging it nearly w\t 

 fpade deep, and dividing it into fonf feet wide beds ; lowing 

 the feed immediately, each fort feparaldy, and rakmg it m 

 evenly. If the feafon proves fliovvery, the plants will nfe in 

 ten or twelve days; but if dry weather prevail, it is nieef- 

 fary to water the beds frequently, both before and aflcr the 

 plants appiar, and to keep them clean from weed*. When 

 the plants have leaves of an inch or two in breadth, it is pro- 

 per to prick out a quantity of the larger plants from the feed- 

 bed into nurfery-beds, in order that they may acquire due 

 ftrength, previous to their being planted out for good in 

 OAobcr, and the following fpring. In this intention, dig 

 over an open fpot of the bell ground, and divide it into beds 

 as before, raking the furface fmooth ; then prick out the 

 plants in rows fix inches diflant, and three or four inche* 

 apart in the lines, giving them a full watering, which, if dry 

 weather fuccecds, muil be repeated occafionally. 



The plants may remain in this fituation, fomc till Oftobcr 

 or November, and the principal part till February, March, 

 or April in the following year, at each of which periods a 

 quantity of the ilouteft Ihould be tranfplanted into the places 

 where they are to remain to cabbage ; good ground in an 

 open cxpofure being allowed them, which if well dunged, 

 and dug in about a fpade deep, will be the better. The 

 plants are moftly put in by line and dibble, in rows : the 

 fmall early kinds at two feet diftant, and about one and a 

 half in the lines ; but the large fngar-loaf and Yorkfhire 

 kinds (liould be fet two feet and a half ditlant every way. A 

 double quantity of thefe forts fhould be planted, for the 

 fupply of a family ; as the fmall early kinds fcldom continue 

 long before they grow hard. 



But in planting crops of early or fummer cabbages, either 

 in autumn or fpring, fome may occafionally be planted clofer 

 than thefe dillances advifed for the principal ftanding crops, 

 in order to admit of thinning out for ufe, bv degrees, in 

 young fmall growth, and a portion alfo planted in rows at 

 only eighteen inches, as under, by a foot in the row. 



It is neceffary to cbferve that, as the autumn plantings 

 fometimes fuller by the feverity of froft or other caufes in 

 winter, the deficiencies fliould be made good occafionally 

 from the plants in the nurfery beds. 



Thofe that have remained in thefe beds all the winter 

 fliould be planted out in February, if the weather be tem- 

 perate and open, where they are to remain, though, if much 

 cut by the winter troll, it is better to let them remain tmtil 

 March or April to become ftumg. When the winter hap- 

 pens to be fo fcveie as to cut off moft of the autumn-raifcd 

 plants, recourfe mult be had to an early fpring-fowing in 

 February or March ; the fuoner the better. 



Where conftant fucceflions of perfeflly young cabbages 

 are required through the fummer and autumn feafons, it is 

 neceflary to perform fpring and fummer fowings, to fucceed 

 thofe of the autumn-raifing. Some feed of the large fngar- 

 loaf and Yorkfliire cabbage fliould be fown in February, 

 Mareli, or the beginning of April, and inialhr portions 

 in May, manai^ing them as already direfted, which will fur- 

 nlfh fupplies of voiing cabbages in July, Angnft, and Sep- 

 tember, &c. i\. Iniail crop luay alfo be fown in June, or 

 early in July, to plant out for fnccefTuHis ot fmall \ouig 

 cabbages, or good cabbage coleworts, in the latter end of 

 aulnmti and early part of winter. 



All the culture cabbage crops require, after being planted 

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