212 OF ESCULENTS. SECT. XV. 



The late £abbages, or thofe of fummer and autumn, 

 fhould be fown early and late in the fpring. For early 

 fummer ufes, fow after Mid- February on a little heat, 

 or under hand-glaffes, on a warm border; the later 

 crops in March, to the end of it ; and for the lateft at 

 the end of April; when .the fmall RuJJian fort will 

 anfwer beft, and be delicate. 



Sow red cabbage feed either about the middle of 

 Auguji or beginning of March; but as there is much 

 more bad feed than good of this vegetable, be as care- 

 ful of the fort as poiiible; i. e. fuch as will be folid, 

 and of a deep colour. 



Carrot, there is a little variety of, in colour, fize, 

 and time of coming in, though not much in tafte. We 

 have orange, red, and yellow, but the former is generally 

 preferred. The fort fown for the firfi crop, whether 

 in cold ground, or on a hot-bed, is the early horn-carrot. 

 Both this and the late horn-carrot grow fhort and thick, 

 and are therefore proper for heavy, or fnallow foils, as 

 the other forts are for light and deep ones. 



Sozv carrots always in good time, as the feed lie* 

 long in the ground, and they are, by many perfons, 

 coveted early. A few fhould be fown in a favour- 

 able fituation, the firft tolerable weather in February, 

 digging the ground well and deep for the purpofe; for 

 it it is lumpy, the carrots will grow forked, as they 

 will alfo if the ground is frefh dunged. 



Carrot feed mould be mixed with dry fand, or earth, 

 rubbing them well together, in order the better to 

 fpread it equally in lowing. Ufe about twice as much 

 fand as feed, and if earth, it were better to be of a 

 different colour from that on which the feed is dif- 

 tributed, that it may be feen. 



If early in the month, the new fown beds may be 

 covered with a little haulm, or ftraw, which will help 

 the feed to germinate, and preferve them from being 

 thrown out of the ground by frolt; and this covering 

 fhould be continued on nights, and taken off by day, 



'when 



