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MW GE “Cabbage. haa Wg 
J also raise my cabbage plants tor autumn and winter cabbage in my 
onion bed by mixing a small quantity of seed with the onion seed which 
are drilled in together, and have never had the cabbage plants destroyed 
by the small fly, which is often the case when grown in a separate bed. I 
attribute my success in raising cabbage plants to having them with the 
onions, 
Parsnips and Carrots. 
I make rule to grow parsnips and carrots on land that has been heavily 
manured the previous year, by so doing I get no forked roots and am sure 
to get a large crop. I sow both in drills fifteen inches apart. 
Beets. 
I select a piece of land that has been well manured the previous year for 
my early beets also, and the sort I raise for the early is the Bassano, and 
the second early, Dewing’s Extra Early Blood Red Turnip. Those two 
kinds I prefer to all others, and for winter beets the Long Smooth Blood. 
I sow the two early kinds as soon in the spring as the season will permit, 
and the late not before the end of May or beginning of June—by sowing 
late they are of better quality. I sowin drills fifteen inches apart, and 
thin to about six inches. 
Roots for Stock. 
The roots that I grow for winter feed for my cows are Long Red Man- 
gel Wurzel, White Sugar Beet and Yellow Globe Mangel Wurzel, and can 
raise from eight hundred to nine hundred bushels to the acre; the land 
must be heavily manured to raise a large crop. I sow in drills two feet 
apart, and thin the Long Mangels and Sugar Beets to about a foot apart, 
but the Yellow Globe can be grown closer together than the others. I 
consider these roots excellent for milch cows and of great value to feed 
during the winter. 
My land is a sandy loam with a little clay mixed with it. I consider it 
must be an excellent soil for roots and vegetables. By manuring I have 
never failed to raise good crops. 
Should you think the above on the cultivation of roots, &c., be worth 
producing at the meeting of the State Horticultural Society you are at lib- 
erty to do so. 
My health has been bad the whole winter. I seldom leave home and 
cannot venture to take the journey to Winona, but should have been pleas- 
ed if able to attend the meeting. 
I am sir, yours respectfully. 
P. C. SHERREN. 
Floriculture. 
The Report of the Committee on Floriculture, by Mrs. Van 
