SECT. XV. OF ESCULENTS* £4! 



March, in drills ten inches afunder, and thin the plants 

 to fix. Let the foil be cool and good, and two feet 

 if pofftble. W ater in very dry time. 



Savoy is a cabbage, peculiarly adapted for late 

 autumn, zvintcr t and fpring ufe, as froft improves it, 

 making it tenderer and fvveeter than before. The forts 

 are green and yellow ; the former moftly cultivated, as 

 it looks beft at table. 



If favoys are defired forward, fow a little in a warm 

 border in February, or under a hand-glafs; but a fow- 

 ing in March, and another in April, in an open fitua- 

 tion is fufficient. Thin the feed bed in time, that the 

 plants may be ftraight and robuft; and when about three 

 inches high, prick them out at five or fix inches dif- 

 tance, where let them grow to a proper fize, (as in 

 June or July) to plant out at two feet apart, or a little 

 more, if in a rich foil. Chufe moift weather for this 

 work, ifpoflible, and give fome water. Earth them up 

 as they grow. 



Sprouts of favoys are delicate eating fpring greens, 

 and therefore if the ground is wanted where the ftalks 

 grow, they may be taken up, and la-id deep in a trench 

 for the purpofe. 



Scorzonera is a carrot-rooted efculent, and! 

 therefore requires a deep, and mould have a cool foiL 

 Cultivate it as falfafy, only let the drills be two or three 

 inches wider, and the plants an inch or two more 

 afunder. 



Sea-Cal E,. or cabbage, is a vegetable not generally 

 known, except in EJJ'ex, Suffex&ndtbe Wefc of England, 

 but it is much liked by many, and as an early fpring 

 produ&ion is valuable. 



Its natural place of growth being the fea-beach, it is 

 evident that a fandy foil will fuit it beft. Some people 

 cultivate it in almoft all fand, which, if it is the natural 

 foil of the place, is proper, as fuch fur face fand is 

 endowed with good vegetable principles ; but w T hen a 

 foil is made* - it mould be one hdMJharf, or drift fand, 



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