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early kind, they will come to perfection very quick, although 
fown in the Spring. The ordering of them is, after they are 
come up about a handful high or lets, (whether they were 
fbwn on Beds together, or aftray amongft other Crops, 
as Turnips, or Michaelmas Onions as they are called ) 
they are to be drawn up and fet in fbme thinner order, 
either fet or laid up, to the letting on of the leaves, in rows, 
about fix inches between each row, and about four or 
five inches afunder, and fb to remain untill the Spring, and 
then in February , March, April , or May, you may take them 
up, and Plant them in fome thinner order, where they may 
Cabbage 3 you muftdung the ground pretty well where you 
Plant them, either on the edges of your quarters where you 
fow your Carrots, or, which is in my judgment better, in a 
quarter or piece of ground together by themfelves,about three 
foot afunder or little lefs, and when they are pretty well 
grown, and the weeds are fomewhat grown up amongft 
them, you are with a Hoe to cut up the weeds, and draw 
them up round about each Plant with your Hoe, the which 
will <be fbme advantage to your Cabbages as well as the 
ground3 thole which are fbwn in the Spring or rifing of 
the year, are to be railed on a hot bed, or amongft your 
earlieft fown Sallet, otherwife they will not Cabbage to any 
good purpofe, except they be of the Dutch or earlieft forts 3 
yet this advantage you will have by your Summer Plants, 
they will continue green and found when your Winter 
Plants are perifhed and gone by the Winters froft, and their 
more forward growing to perfe&ion 3 you are to fee to 
your Seed when if is coming up both the early and the later 
ifowings, otherwife you may lofe your labour and Seed, by 
thofe finall Birds call’d Chaffinches, which will pull up and 
eat your Plants as foon as they peep out of the ground,and 
all that lieth uncovered of your Seed 3 the way of prevention 
is, if you fow on a bed, to cover it with fome old nets which 
many ufe, or elfeto fhoot, or by other means to get fome ofthe 
aforefaid Birds and- fcatter the ground with their Feathers, 
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