DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



729 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



June 10 should have been planted two weeks earlier but the planting was unavoidably 

 delayed. The table given below is of interest iai that it shows up the respective merits 

 of the three principal early varieties. Copenhagen Market, Paris Market, and Early 

 Jersey Wakefield for early market purposes. The Copenhagen Market while some- 

 what later in developing makes a much better head than either of the other two. The 

 Copenhagen Market head is round and is liked much better than the Paris Market or 

 Early Jersey Wakefield both of which are of the oxheart type. For the very early 

 market it seems that the selected Early Jersey Wakefield is advisable, but, considering 

 everything, it would appear that for general purposes the Copenhagen Market is the 

 best. 



For early cabbage there is a great advantage in having plants well developed and 

 well hardened oil in a cold frame for setting in the ground as early as possible. The 

 planting in the open ground should not be delayed after the ground can be worked, and 

 a frost, if the plants have been properly hardened off, will not do any injury. The 

 early set cabbage for the first two weeks do not show growth in' foliage but the roots 

 meanwhile are becoming well established and when better growing weather approaches 

 they develop into marketable heads rapidly. 



Owing to the root maggot it is almost impossible to grow early cabbage without pro- 

 tecting the plants by using the tar felt disc which is fitted around the plant right after 

 it is set. This disc is a piece of tar paper about 2^ inches in diameter with a slit cut 

 in half-way and a small cross slit of about half an inch to enable it to fit as a collar 

 with the plant in the centre of the disc. It should be fitted carefully about the plant on 

 the surface of the ground in order to give the desired protection. This prevents the 

 fly from depositing the eggs on the soil at the base of the plant from which the mag- 

 gots hatch. Plants protected with these discs during the past season were 89 per cent 

 marketable, and those not protected 27 per cent marketable. 



EAELT CABBAGE. 



Variety. 



Copenhagen Market 



Copenhagen Market 



Paris Market 



Paris Market 



Early Jersey Wakefield.. 

 Early, Jersey Wakefield. 



Erfurt Small 



Erfurt Small 



Summer Ballhead 



Summer Ballhead 



Seed sown. 



Mar. 28, 

 April 15. 

 Mar. 28. 

 April '15. 

 Mar. 28. 

 April 15. 

 Mar. 28. 

 April 15. 

 Mar. 28. 

 April 15. 



First. 



ready 



for use. 



July 22... 



Aug. 20... 



July 7... 



Aug. 10... 



July 8. . . 



Aug. 10... 



July 25... 



Aug. 20... 



Aug. 9... 

 Sept. 3.. 



When harvested. 



July 24, Aug. 5.... 

 Aug. 31, Sept. 12.. 

 July 10, 16 and 24. 

 Aug. 10, 21 and 28, 

 July 11, 16 and 24. 

 Aug. 13, 21 and 28 

 July 25, Aug. 5.... 



August 22 



Aug. 15 and 28 



Sept. 8, 9 and 14.. 



Average weight 

 per head. 



lb. oz. 



4 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 4 

 4 



1 

 3 

 1 

 6 

 1 



i 



14 



5 



12 



LATE CABBAGE. 



For late cabbage it is not necessary to start the plants early, in fact plants set 

 late in the open ground escape the root maggot and for that reason very many grow 

 only late cabbage. There is also much less work attached to the growing of late 

 cabbage. The plants are started in a cold frame, in good garden soil, the last week 

 in April or first week in May. The seed is sown thinly in rows 4 to 6 inches apart 

 so that the ground can be worked between the rows. Care is taken to give proper 

 ventilation during the day and the frames are covered at night. As the season 



16-50J Kextville. 



