The early

not in the

After the

or drum-head cabbage, is in great request, grows to a moderate size, and is used for what they call sour-crout, for the winter. To preserve them, they shred the cabbage into a barrel, and salt it; and when it has remained there sometime, it grows sour, and is also used as sallad, or boiled for the same purpose as other cabbages are. York and May are cultivated, but same perfection as in England. first cutting of the early cabbage, the stalk dies. All cabbages, intended for winter, are either placed in a cellar with earth to put roots in, or taken up and planted thick on a bed in the garden, and a shelter like a house erected over them, covered with pine-tree boughs, or thatched with straw, which causes the outer leaves to rot, and the whole of the cabbage to have a very unpleasant smell and taste.

that

the

Vegetables are so much used in America, young clover is very frequently eaten greens in the spring. The stalk of the cabbage is generally set out in the garden

for

for sprouts turnips are set out in the same manner, and their tops used, both cold and boiled. Indeed, in the spring, they boil évery thing that is green, for the use of the table. These sort of sprouts are sold at a quarter of a dollar per peck.

Great numbers of lettuces are raised and used.

There is a small sort of garlic which grows so abundantly as to cover some thousands of acres, and is very obnoxious to all grain-crops, so as to produce nearly as much garlic as grain, particularly the winter crops. This garlic is a very early plant, is excellent food for sheep, and might be found valuable for sheep in some parts of England, if it would not be injurious to the succeeding crops. It vegetates from both the root and seed, but never grows after the land is enriched. The seed is little larger than wheat in England.

Peas of all kinds that are set produce very well. The field-pea of England is not

in use.

Garden (or Windsor) beans produce very little as to the English field-bean, it will not produce at all. Kidney-beans are very productive, and are much in use. What are termed Indian peas, are a sort of kidney-bean; the bunch-bean is the same, and produces abundantly. They are rodded,. and run to a great height. The hominybean is a sort of kidney bean, and very productive.

All these sorts of peas and beans are of an unuseful kind: no sort of animal likes them-neither horses, cows, hogs, nor fowls. Therefore, they are but little worth notice, except for the table.

To show the expence of garden-seeds, &c. I insert the following bill, with which I shall conclude this section.

Dollars Cents

To 20%. large Scotch cabbage,

SECTION XVII.

The Nature and Culture of Timothy Grass; pointing out the proper Sort of Land, and the Method of sowing and reaping.

THE nature of timothy is very like that of wheat; it suits a clay soil,-so much so, that if the land be in the least inclined to sand, it will neither grow well nor be productive, and soon goes off. The preparation of the land is to pulverise it very fine; they frequently plough up a meadow after mowing the hay, and harrow it and sow the seed, about two quarts on an acre. -It is Sown in September, chiefly alone, and yields a full crop the August following. It should stand until the head is brown. If some of the top part of the seed drop, it is better. It must not be eaten by sheep, or any other animal, the first year. It has a good after-grass, or