An Encyclopedia of gardening comprising the theory and practise of horticulture, floriculture

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...as part of the principal crops sown in AW and early in mung. iglbercrovnbie.). H't1Ir‘ring ca grs. uring long continued droughts in June and July or later, cubbages are apt tobecome stinted in theirlgrowth, and covered with aphides. To prevent this lépply copious watering! every evening; water so undaiitly supplied ls supposed to injure the flavor o some plants, but it is found to have no efl'ect of that kind on cabbagec S501. Cabbage-coleu-arts. The original variety of cabbage called colewort (if ever the plants which passed by that name were a distinct variety) is, or seems to be, lost, and is now succeeded by what are called cabbage-coleworts. These, Abercrombie observes, are valuable family plants, useful in three stages: as "young open greens, mi greens with closing hearts, and as greens forming a cabbage growth. ' 3502. Sort: properfor caleworfs. Procure seed of some middle-sized earl variety of the cabbage, quick-hearting, and of close growth; such as the early and large York, East £211), and large sugar-loaf. ()cc:winn:illy, for larger coleworts, you may adopt some Bttttersea, imperial, Antwerp sorts, or early London hollow; but avoid the larger late kind: of cabbage. which, in a colcwort state, are too spreading and open; the others grow close, stocky, and full in the heart, and boil most tender and sweet for the tab. B 3503. Timu of sowing. To have a good supply of colcworts for autumn, winter, spring, and returnin summer, it is proper to make three or four sowings in summer and autumn: that is, one sowing toward the middle of June, a second about the same time in July, with a third in the last week. These supplementary crops are for traiisplantiiig in August, September, and October, and will amount to a...