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THE INFLUENCE OF DEPTH OF TRANSPLANTING 

 UPON THE HEADING OF CABBAGES. 



Nearly all gardeners suppose that deep setting of cabbage plants 

 is essential to success. The plants are set in the ground up to the 

 lowest leaves when transplanted from the seed-bed. Tests were 

 made upon this point in 1889 with thirteen varieties, and the re- 

 sults showed no appreciable difference between the deep set plants 

 and those set at the natural depth. (These results appeared in 

 Bulletin XV, page 209.) The test was repeated this year up- 

 on Early Wakefield {Early Jersey Wakefield.} Over two hundred 

 plants, for which the seeds were sown under glass April 14th, were 

 set in the field May 29th. They were set in six parallel rows, every 

 other row containing plants set at the same depth as they stood 

 in the seed-bed, and the alternate ones containing those set down 

 to the first leaves. The soil was a heavy clay loam, unfertilized. 

 The crop was harvested Aug. 1st and Aug. 23d, and the follow- 

 ing figures w r ere obtained : 



No. No. of Per cent, of Average 



of Mature or Pl'ts producing weight 



Plants. Solid hds. Mature hds. per hd. 



Deep 107 82 77 1,6 lbs. 



Shallow 104 89 85 1.8 " 



Shallow planting gave better results than deep planting, both 

 in the percentage of good heads and in the weight of heads. In 

 1889, in a larger experiment, the comparative results of the two 

 methods were indifferent. We feel, therefore, that the common 

 notion that deep transplanting is essential to success in cabbage 

 growing is at least doubtful. 



THE PEACH YELLOWS. 



The yellows of the peach is spreading in Western New York, and 

 it is becoming a very serious menace to peach culture. Investiga- 

 tions into the nature of this disease have been carried on for the last 

 three or four years by the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington. Little has been said concerning these investigations, and 

 people are not aware of the extent to which they have been car- 

 ried. In order to learn something of their scope, I visited the 



