— 2og — 



Plants on loatn. — Average height of plant, i8 inches ; average 

 number of po:l.s per plant, 5.4 ; all the pods, except sometimes the 

 ver}^ uppermost ones, were ripe and there were no flowers. 



Plants on day. — 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 ; on!}' about two-thirds of the pods were ripe, and there 

 were still some flowers. 



THE INFLUENCE OF DEPTH OF TRANSPEANTING 

 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 ob- 

 servation of the writer, during several seasons, have lead him to 

 doubt the greater efficiency of deep-planting, beyond some in- 

 fluence 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 experi- 

 ments with the early sorts by packing the earth or washing it 

 away from the stems. But Ihe 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 2nd. The deeply set cabbages weie pknted 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 i, and the heaviest average weiglit is divided by it. 



