In planting out, the spacing must be regulated according to the size of the variety grown.  If put out in beds, the plants may be placed from one to two feet apart, and the rows one and a half to two feet asunder.  All planting should be done in showery weather if possible, or with a falling barometer.  It may not always be convenient to wait for rain, and happily it is a peculiarity of Brassicas, and of Cabbage in particular, that the plants will endure, after removal, heat and drought for some time with but little harm, and again grow freely after rain has fallen.  But good cultivation has in view the prevention of any such check.  At the best it is a serious loss of time in the brief growing season.  Therefore in droughty weather it will be advisable to draw shallow furrows and water these a day in advance of the planting, and if labour and stuff can be found it will be well to lay in the furrows a sprinkling of short mulchy manure to follow instantly upon the watering; then plant with the dibber, and the work is done.  If the mulch cannot be afforded, water must be given, and to water the furrows in advance is better than watering after the planting, as a few observations will effectually prove.  If drought continues, water should be given again and again.  The trouble must be counted as nothing compared with the certain loss of time while the plant stands still, to become, perhaps, infested with blue aphis, and utterly ruined.  As a matter of fact, a little water may be made to go a long way, and every drop judiciously administered will more than repay its cost.  The use of the hoe will greatly help the growth, and a little earth may be drawn towards the stems, not to the extent of ‘moulding-up,’ for that is injurious, but to ‘firm’ the plants in some degree against the gales that are to be expected as the days decline.

==Autumn-sown Cabbage for Spring and Summer use.==—­The fourth, or autumn, sowing is by far the most important of the year, and the exact time when seed should be put in deserves careful consideration.  A strong plant is wanted before winter, but the growth must not be so far advanced as to stand in peril from severe and prolonged frost.  There is also the risk that plants which are too forward may bolt when spring arrives.  In some districts it is the practice to sow in July, and to those who find the results entirely satisfactory we have nothing to say.  Our own experiments have convinced us that, for the southern counties, August is preferable, and it is wise to make two sowings in that month, the first quite early and the second about a fortnight later.  Here it is necessary to observe that the selection of suitable varieties is of even greater consequence than the date of sowing.  A considerable number of the Cabbages which possess a recognised value for spring sowing are comparatively useless when sown in August.  Success depends on the capability of the plant to form a heart when the winter is past instead of starting a seed-stem, and