==Couve Tronchuda== produces two distinct dishes.  The top forms a Cabbage of the most delicate flavour and colour, and furnishes the best possible dish of greens in autumn; and the midribs of the largest leaves may be cooked in the manner of Sea Kale, and will be found excellent.  This delicious vegetable may be secured for use in summer and autumn and far on into the winter by successive sowings in February, March, and April; the first sowings to be assisted with heat.  The plants should be put out as early as possible on rich soil at from two to three feet each way; they must have plenty of water in a dry summer.  The season of Portugal Cabbage may be prolonged by taking up what plants are left before severe frost occurs, and heeling them into a bank of dry earth in a shed or outhouse.

==Egg Plant.==—­The fruits of Egg Plants play a more important part in the cookery of the French and Italians than with us, and they make a delicious dish when properly cooked.  Seed may be raised in heat, but when summer comes the plants thrive in rich soil at the foot of a wall facing south.  The white and purple varieties are grown for ornament as well as for cooking.  Sow now or in March in heat, and in June the plants should be ready for transferring to rich soil in a sheltered spot, allowing each one a space of two feet.

==Garlic== to be planted in rows, nine inches apart each way, and two inches deep in rich mellow soil.

==Lettuce.==—­Sow again on a warm border and in frames.  Plant out in mild weather any that are fit from frames and hot-beds, first making sure that they are well hardened.

==Mustard.==—­It is easy work with a frame to have Mustard at any time; and many small sowings are better than large ones, which only result in waste to-day and want to-morrow.

==Onion==.—­There is still time for sowing seed in boxes preparatory to planting out in April.

==Parsley== to be sown in the latter part of the month.

==Parsnip== should be sown as early as possible, on the deepest and best ground as regards texture; but it need not be on the richest, for if the roots can push down they will get what they want from the subsoil, and therefore it is of great importance to put this crop on ground that was dug twice in the autumn.

==Pea==.—­Sow early sorts in quantity now, in accordance with probable requirements; but there will be a loss rather than a gain of time if they are sown on pasty ground or during bad weather.  There are now many excellent sorts of moderate height, and these give the least trouble in their management; but a few of the taller varieties still remain in favour, because of their fine quality.  However, there is time yet for sowing mid-season and late Peas; but the sooner some of the first-earlies are in, the better.  It is customary to sow many rows in a plot rather close together, but it is better practice to put them so far apart as to admit of two or three