Sept.] THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 4gj[ 
salading as directed in the preceding months. The seeds may 
now be sown in an open situation where the earth is light and rich, 
but what jou sow towards the end of the month should have a warm 
exposure. 
Hoe, Turnips. 
As your crop of turnips advances in growth, hoe and thin the 
plants to proper distances^ let this be done in a dry day, cutting 
the weeds up clean with a sharp and middle sized hoe. For gene- 
ral directions see page 433. 
Sowing Cabbage Seed. 
The proper period for sowing cabbage seed in the middle states 
to produce earlt/ summer cabbages, is between the sixth and tenth 
of this month, if intended to be transplanted into frames in Octo- 
ber for winter protection, which is the most preferable method; but 
if they are designed for remaining in the seed-beds till spring, the 
period is between the fifteenth and twentieth. However, it will be 
very proper to make two or three sowings within that time, as it is 
impossible to say whether the fall may be favourable or otherwise, 
and therefore the better way is to be prepared in either case by 
successive crops. 
The consequence of having plants too forward or early is, that 
they are very subject to run to seed in the spring soon after being 
planted out; and if the seeds are sown too late, the plants do not 
acquire sufficient strength before winter to withstand its rigour 
without extraordinary care. But in either case there is a remedyj 
that is, if the plants are likely to become too luxuriant and strong, 
transplant them once or twice in October, and if too backward and 
weakly, make a slight hot-bed towards the latter end of that month, 
and prick them out of the seed-bed thereon; this will forward them 
considerably. 
At all events, I would advise, particularly in the middle states, 
the first sowing to be made about the tenth or before it, the second 
four days after, and the third on the eighteenth day of this month, 
or at any rate within two or three days of these periods; for the 
difference occasioned at this time by one or two days will in a few 
weeks be very perceivable and striking. In the eastern states, 
the first of the month will be a suitable period for sowing a princi- 
pal crop. 
The kinds proper to be sown now are the early Smyrna, early 
York, early Battersea, early Russia, and early sugar-loaf cabbages; 
it would also be very proper to sow at this time some of the large 
drum-head, flat Dutch, large English ^nd red pickling kinds, to 
succeed the other sorts, and to produce fine large heads in the early 
autumn months; but the seeds of these late kinds may be sown 
three or four days earlier than the former, as the plants are not so 
subject to run to seed in spring. 
Sow these seeds in beds of good garden mould, and either cover 
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