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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[Mar. 



apt to start or button. The early white, the tall purple, the 

 green or the dwarf sulphur-colored kinds, are the best to sow ; 

 the seed must be sprinkled thinly, on a bed of light earth, and 

 in a warm open situation ; it must be covered to about a quarter 

 of an inch in depth, and raked in fine. 



TRANSPLANTING AND SOWING CABBAGES. 



Transplant cabbage-plants of all kinds, into the places, where 

 they are to remain to cabbage. It may be done the beginning, 

 or middle of this month, but if the plants be strong, the sooner 

 it is now done, the better. Let them be planted in good ground, 

 well manured, at two feet and a half distant. 



This distance is meant for such plants, as are to remain to 

 grow to their full size ; but such of the forward kinds as are to 

 be cut young, may be planted closer ; and eighteen or twenty 

 inches distant will be sufficient. 



Sow the seeds of cabbages of any kind, the beginning or 

 middle of this month, particularly the early kinds for suc- 

 cessional young summer-cabbages, and large sorts for autumn 

 and winter use. The large sugar-loaf is a fine kind to sow 

 now, also the Yorkshire, Battersea, and imperial, for midsum- 

 mer and general autumn cabbages. A quantity of the large, 

 hollow, long- sided, and large round cabbages, may now be 

 sown for late autumn and general winter use : let the whole 

 be sown in an open spot of good ground, each sort apart. 

 In sowing them, let each sort be correctly labeled, which 

 should be a rule with every seed that is sown. 



The plants produced from this sowing will, particularly the 

 early sorts, be well cabbaged in August and September, espe- 

 cially the sugar-loaf, Battersea, and Yorkshire kinds, and will 

 remain good all the winter. 



Red cabbage-seed should also be sown towards the latter 

 end of this month, to raise some plants for winter use; they 

 will be well cabbaged in September, or about Michaelmas, 

 and keep good till the spring. 



In sowing the several sorts of cabbage-seed, it will be most 

 proper to sow them in open ground, at a distance from trees, 

 fences, or buildings ; for when sown in such close situations, 



