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CABBAGE. 
may not produce so many good plants, as the one ounce on 
che plan recommended. 
The Bergen, and other large kinds, should be transplanted 
the second and third week in July, in rows thirty inches 
asunder, and the plants about two feet apart in the rows : 
the Savoys and smaller sorts may be planted about the same 
time, but from four to six inches nearer every way. Cabbage 
succeeds best in a fresh rich soil, and the ground should be 
deeply hoed or ploughed, at least three times, during their 
growth. 
The Brassica Rapa , or Turnip Cabbage, produces its bulb, 
or protuberance, on the stems above ground, immediately 
under the leaves. It is eatable when young, or about the 
size of a garden Turnip. 
The seed may be sown in April or May, and the plants 
afterward treated the same as Cabbage, only that in earthing 
up the plants you must be careful not to cover the globular 
part. 
They are much more hardy than Turnips. In England 
the bulbs often grow to upward of twenty inches in circum- 
ference, and weigh from ten to twelve pounds. They are 
cultivated for the feeding of cows and sheep, as well as for 
table use ; in either case they treat them as they do Cabbage, 
or sow them like Turnips, and afterward hoe them out to 
proper distances. 
The Brassica Napus, or Turnip-rooted Cabbage, has an 
oblong thick root in the form of a winter Radish; it is ex- 
tremely hardy, and will survive very hard frosts ; the seed 
should be sown in rich ground, and treated in every respect 
as Turnips, observing to thin the plants with a hoe to the dis 
tance of sixteen inches apart. Their roots will be much 
larger and better when treated in this way, than if trans- 
planted. 
The Brassica Napus, variety csculenta , is sometimes culti- 
vated as a salad herb. It is held in great esteem by the 
French as a culinary vegetable, and is called the Naret, or 
