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524 CABBAGE PALM CABET watered, and allowed to take root before dis- turbing the soil about them. If the weather continues dry, the plants should be watered two or three evenings in succession. This planting gives the earliest cabbages, and summer cab- bages, which come between the early and late crops. For a late crop the seeds are sown in an open bed, thinly, in drills 6 to 9 in. apart, in May, and transplanted from June 10 to July 1, in straight rows, 22 to 27 in. asunder each way. The cabbage is a rank feeder and an exhaustive crop. The soil should be a deep, rich loam, not only containing plenty of vege- table matter, but a full suppy of potash, soda, and lime. A dressing of common salt, at the rate of 10 bushels per acre, will not only bene- fit the cabbage crop, but kill grubs and worms, which destroy the young plants rapidly. Hog- pen manure ought never to be applied to the cabbage crop, as it disfigures the roots and destroys the plant. Composts ol muck, wood ashes, lime, salt, and common yard manures, well decomposed, may be used in large quanti- ties if well incorporated with the soil. Guano, dug deeply under, is good in all but very light sandy and gravelly soils. A first-rate super- phosphate of lime, with one third its weight of guano mixed with it, is one of the best manures for a garden soil, or one which has always re- ceived common manures. This compound may be dissolved in water, and freely used to water feeble plants, or dug in about them with a hoe. As soon as young plants have taken root in the new bed, they should be hoed, the oftener the better, till the leaves shade the soil. In its younger stages, the cabbage must feed largely on carbon- ic acid, &c., by its roots ; but as it increases in size, it uses the leaves more extensively ; hence the necessity of early and frequent hoeings. CABBAGE PALM (areca oleracea), the highest Cabbage Palm (Areca oleracea). of the American palms, often attaining an elevation of 150 ft., with a trunk not more than G in. in diameter. It is found abun- dantly in the West Indies, and is very distinct from the East Indian species of areca. The leaves grow only from the top, and their sheaths are so close that they form the green top of the trunk 1 ft. in length. The inhabitants cut oft' this top, take out the white heart of 2 or 3 in. in diameter, consisting of delicate leaves closely folded together which have been pro- tected from any access of light, and eat it either raw, fried, or boiled. A tree which has grown for half a century is often cut down for the single bud or cabbage which crowns it. CABEC.A DE VACA. See NUSEZ, ALVAE. CABEL, Marie Josephe, a Belgian singer, born in Liege, Jan. 31, 1827. After the death of her father, M. Dreullette, a former French army officer, she maintained her mother by giving music -lessons. She married M. Cabel, and after studying at the conservatoire of Paris, she appeared at the Opera Comique in 1849, in the Val (TAndorre, and at Brussels and Strasburg. In 1853 she appeared at the Th6- atre Lyrique, Paris, in Le oijou perdu. Auber composed for her Manon Lescaut, in which she appeared at the Opera Comique in 1856. She also gained applause in La jille du regiment and Vetoile du Nord; in 1859 as Dinorah in Le pardon de Ploermel ; and in 1863, at the Theatre Lyrique, in Mozart's Coil fan tutte. CABELL, a S. W. county of West Virginia, separated on the N. W. from Ohio by the Ohio river. A part has been recently taken off to form a portion of Lincoln county ; former area, 448 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 6,429, of whom 123 were colored. It is watered by the Guyan- dotte, and traversed by the principal thorough- fare from the Ohio to Richmond. The surface is hilly, and the soil in many places good. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad intersects the county. The chief productions in 1870 were 42,592 bushels of wheat, 167,600 of Indian corn, 31,586 of oats, 17,398 of potatoes, and 135,410 Ibs. of tobacco. There were 765 horses, 833 milch cows, 2,345 other cattle, 4,025 sheep, and 3,866 swine. Capital, Barboursville. CABES, Gulf of (anc. Syrtu Minor), an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the E. coast of Tunis, in Africa. The towns of Cabes, or Khabs, and Sfax, or Sfakus, are situated on its shores. (See SYETIS.) CABET, fftienne, a French communist, born in Dijon, Jan. 2, 1788, died in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 9, 1856. He was educated for the bar, and became attorney general of Corsica, from which office he was soon dismissed. He was sent to the chamber of deputies in July, 1831. There he made himself so obnoxious to the gov- ernment by his speeches, pamphlets, and a jour- nal, the Populaire, that he was indicted for treason, and withdrew to England, where he published the Voyage en Icarie, in which he elaborated his scheme of communism. In 1848 a band of 69 Icarians left France for the Eed river in Texas, where Cabet, who assumed the