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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Early Brunswick, Large York and 

 Danish Drumhead ; on August 22, Pre- 

 mium Flat Dutch, Improved American 

 Savoy, Early Bleicheld, Early York, 

 Stone Mason, Red Drumhead, Drum- 

 head Savoy and Red Dutch ; on Sep- 

 tember 1st, St. Dennis Drumhead, and 

 on October 17th, Bergen Drumhead. 

 Those plants which produced as 

 many heads as there were plants, were 

 Sch weinfurt Quintal and Early Winning- 

 stadt. Green Glazed produced no heads, 

 and among those which produced but 

 few may be mentioned, the Early Ulm 

 Savoy, seven heads from twenty-nine 

 plants ; Henderson's Early Summer, 

 ten heads from twenty-eight plants ; 

 Sugar Loaf, nine heads from twenty- 

 two })lants ; Fottler's Improved Early 

 Brunswick, twelve heads from twenty- 

 eight plants ; Improved American Sa- 

 voy, eight heads from twenty-seven 

 plants; Early York, five heads from 

 twenty-two plants; Drumhead Savoy 

 seven heads from nineteen plants ; Ber- 

 gen Drumhead, five heads from twelve 

 plants ; St. Dennis Drumhead, six 

 heads from twenty-three plants. Select- 

 ing the few varieties which commend 

 themselves to us, we can name the Vil- 

 morin's Early Flat Dutch, at edible 

 maturity July 28th, nineteen seeds ger- 

 minating, giving seventeen , heads, and 

 the trimmed heads weighing about four 

 pounds apiece; the Newark Early 

 Flat Dutch, at edible maturity July 

 28th, furnishing nineteen heads from 

 the twenty-two seeds which vegetated, 

 and the trimmed heads weighing about 

 5 J lbs. ; the Early Winningstadt, which 

 was edible August 1st, furnished twenty- 

 three heads from t wenty-thi*ee plants 

 which vegetated, the trimmed heads 

 weighing about three and half lbs. ; the 

 Sch weinfurt Quintal, which was ready 

 for the table August 11th, which gave 

 twenty-four heads from twenty-nine 

 plants, the trimmed heads weighing 

 about seven lbs., and very solid. 



CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. 



We were ti'oubled considerably by 

 the ravages of the cabbbage butterfly, 

 pieris rapce, or rather by its larvae. The 

 Butterfly was seen flying about the 

 j)lants early in summer, and in the 

 latter part of June the first brood of 

 caterpillars appeared These did less 

 destruction, however, than the second 

 brood, which came about the middle of 

 August. In order to test the efiicacy 

 of a few of the so-calle 1 remedies 'for 

 the cabbage worm, we confined some of 

 the caterpillars in a bottle and noted 

 their behavior under various treatments. 

 One specimen confined for three hours in 

 a bottle partly filled with black pepper 

 crawled away discolored by the powcler, 

 but apparently unharmed. The second 

 rej)eatedly immersed in a solution of 

 saltpeter, and a third in one of Boracic 

 acid exhibited little indicatioiis of in- 

 convenience. Bi-sulphide of carbon 

 produced instant death when applied 

 to the worm, though its fumes were not 

 efiectual. The fumes of benzine as well 

 as the liquid, caused almost instant 

 death, but when ap})lied to the cabbages, 

 small whitish excrescences appeared on 

 the leaves. Hot water applied to the 

 cabbage destroyed a portion of the 

 worms, causing also the leaves to turn 

 yellow. One ounce of saltpetre and 

 two pounds common salt dissolved in 

 three gallons of water, formed an appli- 

 cation which was partly efficient. The 

 most satisfactory remedy tested, how- 

 ever, consisted of 'i mixture of |^ lb, 

 each of hard soap and kerosene oil in 

 three gallons of water. This was appli- 

 ed August 26th, and examination the 

 following day showed many, if not all, 

 of the worms destroyed. 



The growing cabbage presents such 

 a mass of leaves in which the caterpil- 

 liars may be concealed that it is hardly 

 possible to reach all the worms at one 

 application. It is of importance, there- 

 fore, to repeat the use of any remedy at 



