Crops treated as advised will give early supplies of the very finest Sprouts.  For successional crops it will be sufficient to sow in the open ground in the latter part of March, or early in April, and plant out in the usual manner; in other words, to treat in the commonplace way of the ordinary run of Borecoles.  With a good season and in suitable ground there will be an average crop, which will probably hold out far into the winter.  It is important to gather the crop systematically.  The Sprouts are perfect when round and close, with not a leaf unfolded.  They can be snapped off rapidly, and where the quantity is considerable they should be sorted into sizes.  The season of use will be greatly prolonged, and the tendency of the Sprouts to burst be lessened, if the head is cut last of all.

==Cabbage==

==Brassica oleracea capitata==

The Cabbage is a great subject, and competes with the Potato for pre-eminence in the cottage garden, in the market garden, and on the farm, sometimes with such success as to prove the better paying crop of the two.  It may be said in a general way that a Cabbage may be grown almost anywhere and anyhow; that it will thrive on any soil, and that the seed may be sown any day in the year.  All this is nearly possible, and proves that we have a wonderful plant to deal with; but it is too good a friend of man to be treated, even in a book, in an off-hand manner.  The Cabbage may be called a lime plant, and a clay plant; but, like almost every other plant that is worth growing, a deep well-tilled loam will suit it better than any other soil under the sun.  It has one persistent plague only.  Not the Cabbage butterfly; for although that is occasionally a troublesome scourge, it is not persistent, and may be almost invisible for years together.  Nor is it the aphis, although in a hot dry season that pest is a fell destroyer of the crop.  The great plague is club or anbury, for which there is no direct remedy or preventive known.  But indirectly the foe may be fought successfully.  The crop should be moved about, and wherever Cabbage has been grown, whether in a mere seed-bed or planted out, it should be grown no more until the ground has been well tilled and put to other uses for one year at least, and better if for two or three years.  There are happy lands whereon club has never been seen, and the way to keep these clear of the pest is to practise deep digging, liberal manuring, and changing the crops to different ground as much as possible.  A mild outbreak of club may generally be met by first removing the warts from the young plants, and then dipping them in a puddle made of soot, lime, and clay.  But when it appears badly amongst the forward plants, their growth is arrested, the plot becomes offensive, and the only course left is to draw the bad plants, burn them, and give up Cabbage growing on those quarters for several years.  The question as to why the roots of brassicaceous plants are subject to this