be too much maniired, as they are an exhausting crop, i 

 Autumnal plantations, intended to stand the winter, should ' 

 have a dry soil, well dug and manured, and of a favourable ' 

 aspect. The cabbage, whether in the seed-bed or linal i 

 plantation, ever requires an open situation. Under the drip 

 of trees, or in the shade, seedlings are drawn up weak, and 

 grown crops are meager, worm-eaten and ill-favoured. 



Sowing cabbage seed. — M Malion saySj The proper pe- 

 riod for sowing cabbage in the Middle States, to produce 

 early summer cabbages, is between the sixth and the tenth 

 of September, if intended to be transplanted into frames in | 

 October, for winter protection , which is the preferable ! 

 method ; but if they are designed for remaining in the seed- 

 beds till spring, the period is between the fifteenth and 

 twentieth. However, it will be very proper to m.ake two i 

 or three sowings within that time, as it is impossible to say 

 whether the fall may be favourcible or otherwise, and, there- 

 fore, the better way is to be prepared in either case by suc- 

 cessive crops. 



The consequence of having crops too early is, that they 

 are subject to run to seed in the spring soon after being 

 planted out ; and if the seeds are sown too late, the plants | 

 do not acquire sufficient strength before winter to withstand 

 its rigour, without extraordinary care. But in either case 

 there is a remedy ; that is, if the plants are likely to become 

 too luxuriant and strong, transplant them once or twice in ; 

 October, and if too backward and weakly, make a slight 

 hot-bed towards the latter end of that month, and prick ' 

 them out of the seed-bed thereon ; this will forward them 

 considerably." 



Mr. M'Mahon thinks that, in the Eastern States, the ! 

 fore part of September will be a suitable time to sow cab- 

 bages intended to be grown the succeeding summer. The 

 seeds should be covered about a quarter of an inch deep, 

 and, if the weather prove dry, should be watered occasion- 

 ally in the evening till they come up. According to Aber- 

 crombie's seed estimate, " for a seed-bed to raise the early 

 York and similar varieties, four feet wide by twenty in 

 length," two ounces mil be required ; for a seed-bed to 

 raise the large sugarloaf, and other luxuriant growers, four 

 feet by thirty-six in length, two ounces. The same writer 

 directs to " sow at three dilFereht seasons, that is, spring, 



