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THE CULINyVRY GARDEN. 



whicli, in dry weather, is of the highest importance to every 

 crop. The hurdles were allowed to remain on the ground 

 until the rough leaves had appeared on the turnips. As a 

 proof of the efficacy of this practice, a piece of ground, which 

 was sown on the same day and with the same kind of seed, 

 but on which the hurdles were not placed, did not produce one 

 plant within a yard of each other. 



SOWING COLEWORTS. 



This is the proper time to sow a full crop of coleworts, for 

 autumn and winter use, and also for plants to stand until 

 the spring, when the savoys and other greens have been con- 

 sumed. 



In order to have good colewort plants, sow some of the best 

 Yorkshire or sugar-loaf cabbage-seed ; the Battersea and Ant- 

 werp kinds may also be sown, but all the kinds of slow-heart- 

 ing cabbage should be rejected. Considerable benefit is 

 derived from sowing the above seeds, as those plants, whicli 

 are not cut in their colewort state may be allowed to stand to 

 cabbage. 



If coleworts be wanted for winter use, the seed should be 

 sown the last week in June, or at farthest in the first week of 

 this month. This sowing will produce plants fit for use in 

 November and December ; but if plants be wanted for spring 

 use, the third or fourth week of this month is soon enough 

 to sow the seed. 



An open spot of ground should be prepared for each sowing, 

 and divided into beds of three or four feet in width, in which 

 the seed should be sown moderately thick, and raked in 

 regularly. In about a week or ten days, the plants will make 

 their appearance, and in September will have attained suffi- 

 cient strength for transplantation. The plants should be set 

 in rows about a foot asunder, and about seven or eight inches 

 distant from each other in the rows. 



CUCUMBERS FOR PICKLING, 



The cucumber plants which were sown or planted in the 

 natural ground to produce picklers, should be now attended to. 



