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the field, and leaying them until March in a warm seed-bed: the latter is preferable, in severe win- ters, but in the open and mild, the plants will be

forwarder set out in the field, The May, or June

sowing, is with the double view of a very forward crop of large cabbages, the succeeding year, or of acrop of coleworts for the following spring; with this latter view, they may be planted thicker than common. They will not all loaf or cabbage, and the plants which run to seed may be drawn for use: or, the ripe cabbages having been consumed before Christmas, the coleworts of the May sow- ing, or those plants which have not loaved, will properly succeed; those which have increasing in

~ bulk in the spring, will be in a state of soundness

and perfection in April and May, a period when old and full-grown cabbages are either run away to seed, or rotten and useless. By this method the grand objection to the cabbage-culture is done away, which is the certain loss of weight in the crop between November and March, and its frequent total ruin by the severity of the frost. With me, the cabbage has endured the frost bet- ter than the kail, or borecole, the latter beside being stalky, producing much less food.

The other great objection to cabbages, the risk of dry weather at the time of planting, isa power- ful reason for setting them out as early as possible, and giving them the full advantage of the spring showers, in the field; on this account, the sooner after the frosts the autumnal plants are fixed in their permanent place, the better; and the quicker the spring-plants follow them, the better also:

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