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ground can be worked. In making this sowing I 
would have it of two kinds—some of a small, hard- 
heading, early variety, and about twice as many of 
a larger-heading summer kind. These latter are 
described as second early in the seed catalogues. 
These early cabbages need very little care except 
to have frequent and thorough cultivation, as they 
are comparatively free from insect pests as long as 
they make a healthy growth. If attacked by the 
black fly or green worm, they should be dusted with 
land plaster or slug shot early in the morning, while 
the dew is still on them. The soil around these and 
all other crops that depend on quick growth for their 
superior qualities, must not only be cultivated, to kill 
the weeds, but must be kept loose and well sfirred, to 
admit the air to the roots of the plants; it must not 
be allowed to lie heavy and packed after dashing 
rains, but should be stirred up as soon as dry enough. 
The rows may be as close as can be worked with the 
cultivator, say about three feet, and the plants about 
one and a half feet apart in the row, or even closer, 
if the variety grown makes but small heads. 
Late or Winter Cabbage. —As soon as the 
ground becomes warm in the spring, or early in 
May, a seed bed should be made and sown with the 
late varieties of cabbage and celery, or the seed may 
be sown in drills in the garden; the seed being sown 
in very thinly, so as to produce plants standing about 
half an inch apart in the row. Where it can be 
done, it is best to sow the seed in a special bed or cold 
frame, where they can be watered and nursed to a 
good size by the time they are wanted for planting. 
