THE CANADIAN IIOBTICLLlLRIST. 



03 



HOW TO GROW EARL^ CABBAGE. 



I sow the seed of the kinds I wish to 

 grow in February or first of March, in 

 small shallow boxes in forcing pit, liot- 

 bed, or if these are not to be had, a 

 sunny window of the house will do. 

 The boxes I use are eighteen by twen- 

 ty-four inches, three inches deep ; made 

 of one-half inch boards. The kinds of 

 early cabbage I generally raise are Eai ly 



. Early Jersey Wakefield. 



Jersey Wakefield (best if pure), Early 

 "Winningstadt, Early Summer and 

 Fotler's Early Drumhead. The first 

 two for early ; the others for second 

 early. I only treated the first two as 

 above stated ; the second early I sow in 

 common hot- beds 1st to the 15th of 

 March. After the seeds sown in boxes 

 (say 15th of February) are uj) and about 

 three inches high, it is necessary to trans- 

 plant them in other boxes, like those 

 they were sown in, about one and a 

 half to two inches apart every way; or if 

 any wish to have them in small pots (two 

 and a half inch) put one plant in each 

 pot, and pots close together in boxes, 

 treating the Stime as if planted in boxes. 

 Pots are better than boxes and I use 

 them largely. About one week or ton 

 days before ])lanting in garden, the^ 

 must be hardened off by exposing grad- 

 ually, night and day, in oi>en air. I 

 set out my plants from 15th of April to 

 1st of May. The plants which are in 

 boxes are taken in the boxes to the part 



of the garden where the groun<l is ready 

 to plant. Take a garden reel, stretch 

 out straight, take plants out of boxes 

 with care so that the soil will stay on 

 the roots. Plant Wakefield twenty 

 inches in rows and Early Summer the 

 same ; the other kinds twenty-four 

 inches. The rows should be thirty 

 inches apart, so that a cultivator can 

 be used. Early radish, lettuce, spinach, 

 etc., can be sown between the cabbage 

 rows and be out before the cabbage 

 needs all the room. After cabbage, 

 celery can be grown on the same 

 ground. In this way other vegetable 

 plants can be raised to advantage. In 

 fact, I have raised all the following 

 with success : early cauliflower, early 

 lettuce, early kohl-rabi, early Savoy, 

 early celery, early beets, early tomatoes, 

 early cucumbers and early squashes. — 

 August D. Mylius, in ^'Gardenara' 

 Monthly." 



THE VIRGINIA FRINGE TREE. 



fChionanthus Virginica.) 



To any one in search of a beautiful 

 and not commonly seen shrub, or small 

 tree, for the lawn, we earnestly com- 

 mend the Fringe Tree, or White Fringe, 

 under which name it is also known. 

 It grows wild in Virginia and south- 

 ward, and succeeds well in cultivation 

 throughout the Northern St-ates and 

 Canada. Yet although it requires not 

 more care than other lawn shrubs, and 

 is much prettier than many whose place 

 it might occupy, it is but seldom seen 

 in northern gardens. 



It grows from a bushy shrub to a 

 small tree of twenty or more feet in 

 height; its leaves are large, oval oblong, 

 dark green, somewhat downy, resem- 

 bling Magnolia-leaves ; its delicate, 

 snowy-white flowers hang in loose and 

 gracefully diooping panicles. A Fnnge 

 Tree in spring, when in full bloom, 

 covered' with a profuse mass of long 



