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head types. Early cabbage can be started in a frame in March and 

 planted out about April 15. Winter sorts should be sown about June I. 

 Cauliflowers for an early crop are best grown in a cold frame where they 

 can be watered. For a fall crop, seed should be sown as near May 25 

 as possible. Kronk's Perfection Erfurt for early, Dry Weather and 

 Snowball for late, are splendid varieties to grow. Brussels sprouts should 

 be sown as soon as the ground is open, and later planted out in rows three 

 feet apart, and two feet between the plants. These are splendid and choice 

 winter vegetables; with the cabbages they should be lifted and heeled in 

 a cool cellar before the frost becomes too severe. Aigburth is a first-class 

 sort, so is Bobbie's Selected. Savoy cabbage is preferred by some to the 

 common cabbage; the culture is the same, and the Drumhead variety the 

 best. Green curled kale or borecole is a very hardy member of the Bras- 

 sica family, and of very easy culture; heeled in with the cabbages it can 

 be used from February to the last of April, and is superior to the greens 

 brought from the south. It should not be housed until it has had several 

 good freezings. 



No garden is complete without tomatoes. These are easily raised in 

 the house or cold frame, and if strong plants are set out, fruit may be 

 picked by the middle of July and until killing frost. To secure good 

 tomatoes they should not be allowed to ramble over the ground at liberty, 

 but trained to stakes, fences, or some other "support. We prefer to retain 

 two of the bottom laterals, with the main stems, and to rub off all other 

 laterals, also cutting back some of the leaves, especially when the plants 

 are tied up to stakes. Trained plants have many advantages to compen- 

 sate us for the care bestowed upon them, the fruit is always clean, and 

 readily seen when wanted, ripens better and has a superior flavor to those 

 borne on plants which are bespattered with soil after every rainfall. Ex- 

 cellent early tomatoes are Chalk's Early Jewel and Lister's Prolific. For 

 a main crop, nothing is superior to the old reliable Stone. Aristocrat and 

 Dwarf Stone are fine dwarf types, excellent for very small gardens. 

 Golden Queen is the finest of the large yellow varieties. The small 

 fruited tomatoes have of late years come greatly to the fore; for salads, 

 decorative effects, and preserving they are very fine : the finest of these 

 is Yellow Plum; others to be recommended are Red Cherry, Peach, Pear, 

 and Red Plum. They grow taller than the large-fruited tomatoes; we 

 have had Yellow Plum over twelve feet high, and one or two plants of 

 each of these varieties will give a lot of fruit. 



An important crop is sweet corn; no vegetable will withstand severe 

 drought and heat better if persistent culture is given the crop. It succeeds 

 well in either hills or drills, probably in the latter the stalks will not blow 

 over so much during the wet windy weather. The first sowing can be 

 made, in a warm piece of ground, from April 15 to April 20; even if it 

 is cut down by a late frost, the seed is easily sown again, and the loss is 

 but trifling. The soil for sweet corn should be very rich for best results. 

 Seeds can be sown at intervals of from eight to ten days until July ist, 



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