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Cabidges.
Mistake me not, I mean the propagating of Cabidge-seed to be Cabidges again, which oftentimes through negligence and ignorance turn or come to be Cail or Colworts: but I cannot stay to reckon up Colworts and Cabidges, how many sorts there are, and what a great commodity it is, especially amongst the Plow-men, but I shall proceed with all the bre∣vity as may be possible, what is to be observed in the sowing and governing of the seed that it degenerate not.
First of all observe the season, that is, if you sow seed for winter plants to be planted out of the Spring, do it at the lat∣ter end of August, in a light earth, the Moon being at the full, five or six weeks after transplant them into another earth, laying or setting them at half a foot distance, to the end that each plant may have its proportion of ground and be restrained of its high growth; at the latter end of February, and in March at the full Moon, these may be planted into quarters of earth, where they may stand at a yard distance: now note, the best ground for these to be planted in, is the strong∣est clay or mawm earth, that is, with this provisoe, that there be abundance of dung under it; these Cabidges must be kept whole with earth about the stalks as the weeds rise, and the under leaves stripped off to cause the Cabidges to grow the greater.
Lastly, You may sow this seed in March for winter Col∣worts, for they may be transplanted about the latter end of May, or in the beginning of June, in manner as aforesaid. I cannot go farther, I have spoken more than I intended.