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Plants mould have a fecond Hoeing, 

 which, if carefully performed in dry 

 Weather, will intirely deftroy the 

 Weeds, and make the Ground clean, 

 fo that they will require no farther 

 Culture : in the Spring they may 

 either be drawn up and carried out 

 to feed the Cattle, or they may be 

 turned in to feed them as they ftand ; 

 but the former Method is to be pre- 

 ferred, becaufe there will be little 

 Wafte ; whereas, when the Cattle 

 are turned inamongft the Plants, they 

 will tread down and deftroy more 

 than they eat. 



The perennial Alpine Colewort is 

 alfo little cultivated in the Gardens 

 near London at preient. This is very 

 hardy, and may be cultivated in the 

 fame manner as the former Sort. 

 This will continue two Years before 

 it runs up to Seed, and will af.er- 

 wards produce many Side (hoots, and 

 in poor Land will continue three en 

 four Year* ; but in rich Soils it will 

 not laft fo long. This may be ufed 

 as the former Sort, to feed Cattle ; 

 for it is not fo good for the Table 

 as the Plants which are now culti- 

 vated for that Purpofe. 



The other two Sorts of wild Ob- 

 ■bage are Varieties fit for a Botanic 

 Garden ; but are Plants of no Ufe. 

 Thefe may be propagated by fow- 

 ing their Seeds on a Bed of light 

 Earth early in the Spring, in the 

 Place where they are tiefigned to re- 

 main (for they do not bear trans- 

 planting well) : when the Plants are 

 come up pretty ftrong, they mould 

 be thinned, fo as to leave them four 

 or five Inches apart; and they mull 

 be conftantly kept clear from Weeds. 

 In June they will flower ; and their 

 Seeds will ripen the Beginning of 

 Juguft ; which if permitted to fall, 

 the Plants will come up, aad main- 

 tain themfelves without any farther 

 Care but to keep them clear from 



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Weeds. They are annual Plants, 

 and peri Hi when they have perfected 

 their Seeds. 



The Manner of faying the Seeds 

 of all the beft Sorts of Cabbages is : 

 About the Middle of November you 

 lhould make choice of lbme of your 

 belt Cabbages, which you mould 

 pull up, and carry to fome Shed, or 

 other cover'd Place,where you lhould 

 hang them up for three or four Days 

 by their Stalks, that the Water may 

 drain from between their Leaves i 

 then plant them in fome Border un- 

 der an Hedge or Pale, quite dowa 

 to the Middle of the Cabbage, leav- 

 ing only the Upper- part of it above- 

 ground ; obferving to ratfe the Earth 

 up about it, fo that it may ftand a 

 little above the Level of the Ground ; 

 efpecially if the Ground is wet, they 

 will require to be raifed pretty 

 much. 



If the Winter mould prove very 

 hard, you mult lay a little Straw or 

 Peas-haulm lightly upon them ; take- 

 ing it off as often as the Weather 

 proves mild, left by keeping them 

 too clofe they lhould rot. In the 

 Spring of the Year thefe Cabbages 

 will (hoot out ftrongly, and divide 

 into a great Number of fmall 

 Branches : ycu muft therefore fup- 

 port their Stems, to prevent their be- 

 ing broken off b-y the Wind ; and if 

 the Weather lhould be very hot and 

 dry, you lhould refrefh them with 

 Water once a Week, which will 

 greatly promote their Seeding, efpe- 

 cially at the time when they are in 

 Flower. 



When the Pods begin to change 

 brown, you will do well to cut ofF 

 the extreme Part of every Shoot ; 

 which will firengthen your Seeds : 

 and it is generally oblerved, that 

 thofe Seeds which grow near the 

 Top of the Shoots, are very fubject 

 to run to Seed before they cabbage ; 



