8 2 The Englijh Gardner. 
the which I have found very effe&ual fo long as the Feathers 
kept any thing frelh , thus you are to do until your Plants 
are pretty gole, and then they will not meddle with them t 
Alfo you are, when the Butter-flies begin to be bufie, to view 
and overlook your Cabbages, and when you find any of 
their Ipawn ( which are divers final 1 yellow Ipecks) you 
are to rub them with your thumb, and fo prevent their mifi- 
chief: and this is much eafier and left troublefome, than 
when they are come to maturity, the which muft be de- 
ftroy’d, otherwife they will deftroy your labours and your 
profit together , there is another, and a worfe miichief inci¬ 
dent to Cabbages happening fome years that are dry, and 
in fome dry grounds, it is a finall fly, which cafts her (pawn 
on Cabbages, and makes them look as it were moldy, and 
where they do prevail much, it doth fo Venom the Plant, 
that it even ftifles them : It is very tedious to deftroy them, 
but yet taken in time, and diligently followed, they may 
be maftered. Nov/ for the faving of their Seed, it is after 
this manner, about Qttober or November, or after, when 
Frofts begin to be frequent and of continuance 5 you are to 
take up the Cabbage you defire to lave for Seed (which, 
fhould be hard and well grown, and it will be fo much for¬ 
warder to break out for feed when foafon ferves ^ yet fome- 
times I have been forc’d to help forward by cutting the Cab¬ 
bage on the top with a croft cut) and then if you will, you 
may wrap an old cloath, piece of Bals-mat, or ftraw about 
the Root, and lay it in fome Sellar or by-Room, or hang it 
up until the end of February, or beginning of March,and then 
to Plant it in fome temperate place not too hot and dry. 
(Some inftead of houfing, do Plant them in fome conveni¬ 
ent place pretty deep, and then cover them with Earth until 
the Spring, and then uncover the tops of them ? ) you may 
Plant it up to the letting on-of the leaves, and let it reft 
until it brings forth its Seed. The ftems of good Cabbages 
will bear as good Seed, as of a whole Cabbage, if you pre- 
ferve them from, rotting until the Spring 3 you muft have a 
care 
