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Show conveniently ; and alfo plant fome of the largeft the Rows); but if they are planted, for a ful} of the Quarters) which will add greatly ‘to the Variety, if they have but Air enough from Rowto Rowfhould be three Feet, and growing Flowers, (efpecially near the Outfide ; to grow. Thefe Bo/quets are proper onlyfor {pacious Gardens, being expenfive in their firft making, as alfo in keeping. BOTRYS3 vide Chenopodium. BOX TREE ; vide Buxus. BRANCA URSINA; vide Acanthus. BRASICA. The Cabbage. Cropin a clear Spot of Ground, the Diftance inthe Rows two Feet four Inches afunder: If the Seafon fhould prove dry whenthey are tranfplanted out, you muft water them every other Evening until they have taken frefh Root; and afterwards, as the Plants advance in Height, you fhould draw the Earth about their Stems with a Hoe, which will keep the Earth moift about their Roots, and greatly ftrengthen the Plants: You muft alfo obferve to keep them clear from Weeds, which are apt to drawthe Plants up tall (if faffer’d to grow amongft them) andoften {poil them. Fo Thefe Cabbages willfome of them be fit for Ufe foon after Michaelmas, and will continue until February, if they are not deftroyed by ? bare fucceeded by long Taper Pods, con- bad Weather : To prevent which, the taining feveral round acrid Seeds. Gardeners near London, pull up their Cabbages The Species are; in November, and trench their Ground up in 1. Brasica ; Capitata ; alba. CB. The Ridges, laying their Cabbages againft their common white C Ridges as clofe as poffible on one Side, burying 2. Brs their Stems in the Ground: In this manner red Cabbage, they let them remaintill after Chrif-mas, when 3 Brastca ; Capitata ; alba ; minor; Muj- they cut them for the Market ; and altho’ the covitica, H. A. The Ruffian Cabbage. 4 Brastca ; Capitata; alba; compreffa. Boerh. Ind. The flat-fided Cabbage. §. Brasrea ; Capitata ; alba ; pyramidali. The Sugar loaf Cabbage. 6. Baasrtca ; Capitata; alba ; precon. The early Batterfea Cabbage. 4. Brastca ; Sabauda ; Hyberna. Lob. Ic. The white Savoy Cabbage. 8. Brasica ; Capitata; viridis ; Sabauda. Boerb. Ind. The green Savoy Cabbage. 9: Brastca; fimbriata. C.B. The Boor Cole. 10. Brasica ; Capitata ; vire/cens ; Ttalica; Crifpa. Munt. Hif. The green Broccoli, 11. Brastca ; Italica; Broccoli diéta. The Italian Broccoli. 12. Brastca ; radice Napiformi. Tourn. The Turnip-rooted Cabbage. 13. Brasica ; Cauliflora. C.B. The Col- liflower. There are feveral other Varieties of Czbbages whichare preferv’d in curious Botanick Gardens, which differ in their Manner of Growth, Colour, &c. But thofe I have mention’d being the principal Sorts which are cultivated for Ufe, I hall omit mentioning the other Jefs valuable Sorts in this Place. and proceed to their Culture. j The common white, red, flat, and longfided Cal bages are chiefly cultivated for Winter Ute: The Seedsof thefe Sorts muft be fown in the middle of March, in Beds of good frefh Earth, and in April, when the young Plants will have about eight Leaves ; they be prick’d out into fhady Borders, aboutfhould three gece ares soe they may acquire Strength, and to prevent their growing rae Middle ofae>sone a i plant them out, where they areyou muft etranfto remain for outer Part of the Cabbage be decay’d, (asis often the Cafe in very wet or hard Winters) yet, if the Cabbages werelarge and hard when laid, the Infide will remain found. The Ruffian Cabbage was formerly in much greater Efteem than at prefent, it being now only to be found in particular Gentlemens Gardens, who cultivate it for their own Uf, and is rarely ever brought to the Marker This muft be fown in the Spring of the Year, and managed as thofe before direéted, with this Difference only, that thefe muft be {ooner planted out for good, and muft have anopen clear Spot of Ground, and require much lef Diftance every Way,for it is buta very {mall hard Cabbage. 'Thefe will be fit for Ufe in July or Auguft, butwill not continue long before they will break andrun upto Seed. The beft Method to havethefe Cabbages good, is to procure frefh Seeds from abroad every Year ; fortis apt to degenerate in England in a few Years. The early Batterfea and Sugar-loaf Cabbages are commonly fown for Summer Ufe, and are what the Gardeners about London commonly call Michaelmas Cabbages. "The Seafon for fowing of thefe isabout the End of 7uy, in an open Spot of Ground ; and when the Plants have got eight Leaves, you mutt prick them out into Beds at about three Inches Diftance every Way, that the Plants may grow ftrong and fhort-fhank’d ; and in the Beginning of O¢fober you fhould plant them out for good: The Diftance that thefe require is, three Feet Rowfrom Row, and two Feet afunderin the Rows. The Gardeners near London commonly, plant thefe Cabbages upon the fame Spot of Ground where their Winter Spinage is fown 5 fo that when the Spinage is clear’d off in the good, orn a Kitchen-Gardens near Spring, the Ground will have a Crop of Cab7 & monly between Coljj lowers, ages uponit ; you muft therefore clear © ones, &Xe, at about two Feet Diftance in the Spinage juft round each Plant early in the Spring, that with a Hoe you may draw the Earth 2 BR BR Earth up to the Stem; and when all your Spinage is clear’d off, which is commonly in April, you muft hoe down all the Weeds, and fhould be fown about the Middle or. Lat terend of May, in a moift Soil; and when the Plants are grown to have eight Leaves, tranfplant them into Beds, (as was directed far the common Cabbage) and to~ ward the Middle or Latter-end of Fuly they will be fit to plant out for good, which fhould be into fome well-fhelter’d Spot of Ground, but not under the Drip of Trees: The Diftance thefe require is about a Foot every way. The Soil in which they fhould be planted ought to be rather light than heavy, fuch as are the Kitchen-Gardens near Londen: draw up the Harth again about your CabbagePlants. In May, if your Plants were of the early Kind, they will turn in their Leaves for Cabbaging ; at which time, the Gardeners near London, in order to obtain them little fooner, tie in their Leaves clofe with a flender Ofier Twig to blanch their Middle; by which means they have them, at leaft, a Fortnight fooner than they could have in the common Way. ; The early Batterfea-Cabbage being the firft we fhould chufe, (if for a Gentleman’s Ufe ) to plant the fewer of them, and a greater Quantity of the Sugar-Loaf Kind, which comesafter them; for the Batterfea Kind will not fupply youlong, they generally cabbaging apace when they begin, and as foon grow hard and burft open: But the Sugar-loaf Kind is longer be- If your Plants fucceed well (as there will be little Reafon to doubt, unlefs the Winter prove extreme hard) they will begin to fhew their fmall Heads, which are fomewhat like a Colliflower, about the beginning of December, and will continue eatable *till the Beginning of March. The Manner of preparing them for the Table, is this; When your Heads are grown fore it comes, and is as flow in its cab- to their full Bignefs, (as maybe eafily known baging, and, being of a hollow Kind, will bytheir dividing, and beginning to run up) continue good for a long time: I have known then you fhouldcut them off, with about four a large Quarter of Ground which was planted Inches of the tender Stem to them ; then ftrip with this fort of Cabbage for Market Ufe, off the outer Skin of the Stem, and after havewhich hath afforded a Supply for near three ing wafh’d them, boil them in a clean LinenMonths together. ‘This, tho’ of fingular Ser- cloth, (as is practis’d for Colliflowers) and vice to a Gentleman’s Garden, is not fo much ferve them up with Butter, &c. and if they for the Advantage of the Market Gardener, are of a right Kind, they will be tenderer than who loves to have his Ground clear’d fooner, anyColliflowers, tho’ very like unto them in that he may have another Crop upon it, of tafte. When your firft Heads are cut off, ndive, &c. which is more to his in about a Month’s time after they will proPurpofe ; for they paying large Rentsfor their duce a number of Side-fhoots, which being Land, are oblig’d to have as many Crops in cut andftripp’d of their outer Skin, are very a Year fromit as poffible. tender and good, almoft equalling 4/paragus. Altho’ 1 before have advis’d the planting The fureft way to have thefe good, is to be out of your Cabbages for-good in Oéfober ; furnifh’d with frehh Seeds from Italy every yet the Sugar-Joaf Kind may be planted out in Year; for they are very apt to degenerate February, and will fucceed as well as if planted in a Year or two, if the Seeds are faved in earlier, with this. Difference only, that they England. will be later before they cabbage. You fhould The Manneroffaving the Seedsofall thefe alfo referve fome Plants of the Ratterfea Kind Sorts of Cabbages, is, about the Middle of in fome well-fhelter’d Spot of Ground, to fup- Oétober, you fhould make choice of fome of ply your Plantation, in cafe of a Defect. your beft Cabbages, which you fhould pull up, The Savoy Cabbages are propagated for and carryto fome Shed or other cover’d Place, Winter Ufe, as being generally efteem’d the where you fhould hang them up for three or better when pinch’d by the Froft ; thefe muft four Days bytheir Stalks, that the Water may be fown about the Beginning of pri/, and drain from between their Leaves ; then plant treated after the manner as was direéted for them in fome Border under a Hedge or Pale, the common white Cabbage, with this Differ- quite down to the Middle of the Cabbage, ence, that thefe may be planted at a clofer leaving only the upper-part of the Cabbage Diftance than thofe; two Feet fquare will be above-ground, obferving to raife the Earth up fufficient, thefe are always much the better about it, fo that it may ftand a little above when planted in an open Situation, which is the Level of the Ground ; efpecially if the clear from Trees and Hedges; for in clofe Groundis wet, they will require to be rais'd Places they are very fubject to be eaten almoft pretty much, up by Caterpillars and other Vermin, efpeIf the Winter fhould prove very hard, you cially if the Autumn prove dry. muft lay a little Straw or Peafe Haulm lightly The Boor-Cole may bealfo treated in the upon them; taking it off as often as the Wea~ fame manner, but need not be planted above ther proves mild, left by keeping them too one Foot fquare: Thefe are never eaten ’till clofe they fhould rot. In the Spring of the the Froft hath render’d themtender ; for other- Year thefe Cabbages will fhoot outftrongly, wife they are tough and bitter. and divide into a great number of {mall The Seeds of the Broccoli (of which there Branches; you muft therefore fupport their are feveral Kinds, viz. the Roman, Neapoli- Stems, to prevent their being broke off by the tan, and black Broccoli, with fome others, but Wind; and if the Weather fhould be very the Roman is chiefly preferr’d to themall,) hot and dry, you fhould refrefh them with Water |