. The book of the garden. Gardening. BRASSICACEOUS PLANTS.—THE CABBAGE. 89 4. Knight's early dwarf.—A nice little hardy sort, which may also be set at a foot apart each way. 5. Early Dutch twist.—An excellent cabbage of the smallest size, very delicate, and may be planted almost as close together as a crop of cabbage-lettuce. 6. CatteVs dwarf Barnes.—A small early sort of great merit. The above are the smallest and earliest of cabbages, and exceedingly well suited for small gardens and private family use. They should be sown more frequently than the larger-grow- ing sorts, so as to keep up a s
. The book of the garden. Gardening. BRASSICACEOUS PLANTS.—THE CABBAGE. 89 4. Knight's early dwarf.—A nice little hardy sort, which may also be set at a foot apart each way. 5. Early Dutch twist.—An excellent cabbage of the smallest size, very delicate, and may be planted almost as close together as a crop of cabbage-lettuce. 6. CatteVs dwarf Barnes.—A small early sort of great merit. The above are the smallest and earliest of cabbages, and exceedingly well suited for small gardens and private family use. They should be sown more frequently than the larger-grow- ing sorts, so as to keep up a succession of young and delicate heads, much after the manner of sowing lettuce. 7. Early nonpareil, Shilling's queen, Shilling's superb dwarf, Tiley's early marrow, early em- peror, early imperial, are all equally excellent for second earlies and second-sized cabbages. 8. Pomeranian cabbage is thus described by Mr Thompson in " Journal of Horticultural So- ciety," vol. v. p. 280 :—"It is remarkable for its conical tapering form, very compact, and firm to the apex. It is very hardy, and may be cul- tivated like other hearting cabbages; but it may be interesting and useful to know that, at Macon, in France, the market-gardeners take it up out of the quarters when fully grown before winter, and lay it in the soil, to the neck, in a sloping direction. Thus treated, it withstood the severe winter of 1847. The quarter thus cleared can be trenched and prepared for other crops—an important advantage in small gardens. It is likely to prove valuable in colder situations than is suitable for the Battersea and other cabbages grown in the neighbourhood of ; King of the cabbages, London market, Wheeler's imperial, Vanack, Sprotboro, Paignton or Penton, M'Ewan's, are all admirably adapted for general crops, where large returns are required. The vanack has been cultivated above a century in the gardens of Colonel Wyndham at Petworth, Sussex, but it was on
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