CABBAGE. 
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Among the varieties of the cabbage, which have been introduced into this 
country, the fo.lowing are enumerated in Mr. RusselPs Catalogue:— 
Early Salisbury dwarf, 
Early York, 
Early Dutch, 
Early sugarloaf, 
Early London Battersea, 
Large Bergen, or great American, 
Early emperor, 
Early Wellington, 
Russian, 
Large late drumhead, 
Late imperial, 
Late sugarloaf, 
Large green glazed, 
Tree, or thousand-headed, 
Large Scotch, for cattle , 
Green globe Savoy, 
Red Dutch, for piclding, 
Large cape Savoy, 
Yellow Savoy, 
Turnip-rooted, or Arabian, (above ground,) 
Turnip-rooted, (below ground,) 
Chou de Milan. 
Soil and Situation .—-Every variety of cabbage grows best in a strong, rich, 
substantial soil, inclining rather to clay than sand; but will grow in any soil, 
if it be w 7 eli worked, and abundantly manured with well rotted dung. But, 
according to Loudon, u The soil for seedlings should be light, and excepting 
for early sowings, not rich. Where market gardeners raise great quantities 
of seedling cabbages to stand the winter, and to be sold for transplanting in 
the spring, they choose, in general, the poorest and stiffest land they have 
got, more especially in Scotland, where large autumnal sowings, of winter 
drumhead and round Scotch, are annually made, and where the stiffness of 
the soil gives a peculiar firmness of texture and hardiness of constitution to 
the plants, and prevents their being thrown out of the soil during the thaws 
which succeed a frosty winter. Transplanted cabbages require a rich mould, 
rather clayey than sandy ; and, as Neill and Nicol observe, it can scarcely be 
too much manured, as they are an exhausting crop. Autumnal plantations 
intended to stand the winter, should have a dry soil, well dug and manured 
and of a favorable aspect. The cabbage, whether in the seed-bed or final 
plantation, ever requires an open situation. Under the drip of trees, or in 
the shade, seedlings are drawn up weak, and grown crops are meager, worm- 
eaten and ill-favored. 
Sowing cabbage seed. —M‘Mahon says, u The proper period for sowing 
cabbage in the Middle States, to produce early summer cabbages, is between 
the sixth and the tenth of September, if intended to be transplanted into 
frames in October, for winter protection, which is the 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 whe¬ 
ther the fall may be favorable or otherwise, and, therefore, the better way is 
to be prepared in either case by successive crops. 
u The consequence of having crops too early is, that they are subject to 
um to seed i* he spring soon after being planted out • and if the seeds are 
