208 THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. lAlffr, 



which the seeds should be sown ; tliis will not only preserve 

 the spinach, but also act as a winter fallow to the ground. 



SOWING CABBAGE. 



The cabbage, being a biennial, the principal crops are ob- 

 tained by sowing the year previous to that in which the crops 

 are to be reaped. A nice attention ought to be paid to the 

 time of sowing this crop, which is the first or second week in 

 August, this time being most conducive to ultimate success. 

 Some sow in the end of July, to have plants stronger before the 

 approach of winter, but of a crop so forward, many of them, 

 and often all, run to seed in the spring ; therefore, be careful 

 to make the principal sowing neither sooner than about the 

 fifth, nor later than about the twelfth of August. If sown 

 sooner, many of the plants would run to seed in spring ; and 

 if sown later, they would not acquire sufficient strength before 

 winter to enable them to stand severe weather. The sorts to 

 be preferred for this sowing are erirly dwarf York, East Ham, 

 early emperor, and sugar-loaf, for first crops; and large 

 York, large sugar-loaf, Battersea, Penton, Imperial, Antwerp, 

 Russian, &c., for secondary spring crops. 



TRANSPLANTING CELERY. 



Celery for a principal crop should be planted both at the 

 beginning, middle, and end of the month. Make the trenches 

 four or five feet wide, and bury in them a thick coating of 

 good moist dung, on which set the plants in rows across the 

 oed a foot apart, and five or six inches apart in the line. 

 When planted, give frequent and copious supplies of water, 

 and if the weather be hot and dry while the operation is 

 goin^ on, let them be shaded by mats supported on sticks laid 

 across tne trenches. Tne waterings must be continued while 

 the dry weather continues, or until the plants be perfectly 

 established. Celery, being indigenous to wet moist ditches, 

 requires a more than ordinary supply of that element. Earth 

 up the early crops as they advance, in doing which, care must 

 be taken, at all times, not to let any eart^ fall into tlie hearts 



