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of pods per plant, 5.4 ; all the pods, except sometimes the very uppermost 

 ones, were ripe and there were no flowers. 



Planfs on clay. — Vines larger, deeper green, more glaucous (more 

 "bloom"), with a tendency, not apparent in the other case, to produce two 

 pods on a peduncle ; average number of pods per plant, 7 ; only about two 

 thirds of the pods were ripe, and there were still some flowers. 



THE INFLUENCE OF DEPTH OF TRANSPLANTING UPON THE HEADING 



OF CABBAGES. 



It is a common practice among gardeners to set cabbage plants to the 

 depth of the first leaf, upon the supposition that deeply set plants give 

 better heads than others. The experience and observation of the writer, 

 during several seasons, have lead him to doubt the greater efiiciency of 

 deep planting, beyond some influence it may exert by preventing injury 

 from very dry weather. The following tests were made during the past 

 season, the soil, particularly in the case of the late cabbages, being poor or 

 in poor condition. Heavy rains may have interfered with the experiments 

 with the early sorts by packing the earth or washing it away from the stems. 

 But the tests were carefully made, and the late plantings did not suffer 

 from rains. The early cabbages were started in a forcing-house March 

 15th. The late ones were sown July 2d. The deeply set cabbages were 

 planted up to the seed leaves, while the others were set at the same depth 

 at which they stood in the seed bed. The column marked "Ratio" is 

 designed to show, graphically, the ratios between the average weights of 

 head in each lot ; the lightest average weight in every couplet is called 1, 

 and the heaviest average weight is divided by it. 



