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taken up with cabbages planted at this time, or early in spring, 

 we would recommend to commence at one end of a quarter, or 

 division of the garden, and to trench the ground for this crop, 

 forming the surface into ridges, and as the operation proceeds, 

 trenching to the depth of two feet or two and a half, accord- 

 ing to circumstances. Give plenty of manure, and let it 

 be regularly laid in the trenches, as the operator proceeds. 

 When one trench is finished, set the plants in the bottom, or 

 lowest part of the ridge, and in wet soils, a row may be planted 

 on the top of the ridge. If both survive the winter, either 

 may be removed to make up blanks in the whole, or removed 

 to another piece of ground, preferring to leave the row in the 

 lowest part of the ridge. When this first row is planted, pro- 

 ceed with another trench, which ridge up in the same manner, 

 and plant the second row of plants, and so on until the whole 

 piece intended be trenched and planted. By this means, the 

 whole garden will be regularly trenched, and when the whole 

 ground has been gone over in this manner, begin again, where 

 the first operation commenced. In old gardens, when the soil 

 has been long cropped with the brassica tribe, this is almost a 

 certain cure for that disease, occasioned by grubs, and gene- 

 rally called, clubbing. The plants will be protected from cut- 

 ting winds, and grown in a fresh soil ; the eggs of the grubs 

 will be buried, probably, beyond the possibility of their again 

 visiting the surface, at least for some time. If this, or a 

 similar rotation, were more generally adopted, less injury would 

 be done by these and other insects. The various varieties of 

 brassica would then follow in crops of regular rotation, as they 

 seldom succeed, if planted twice on the same ground. 



The plants should be set in rows about two feet apart, 

 allowing about the same space between the rows, which is 

 sufficient room for this early plantation. 



Some of the early cabbage-plants should, however, remain 

 in the nursery-beds till January or February, when they are 

 to- be planted out permanently, for it frequently happens, in 

 severe winters, that many of those plants, which are set out 

 early in a more open exposure, are destroyed by the frosts ; 

 should this take place, then have recourse to the nursery-beds 

 to supply their places. 



