January, 19I1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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cost of scraping the trees, pruning, two 

 sprayings, working the orchard and sow- 

 ing a cover crop amounted to $48.30. The 

 cost of barrels, picking and packing cost 

 $78.38. The profit on the fifty trees was 

 $184.67. The most this orchard had ever 

 produced previously in any one year was 

 ipoO.OO. The crop produced was clean and 

 free from worms, and comprised a high 

 percentage of numLer one apples. 



Experiments with Cabbage 



A series of experiments with cabbage 

 bave been conducted by the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. Bull. No. 133 

 of the station records the work that has 

 been done and gives much valuable advice 

 ou the culture of this crop. Conclusions 

 drawn from the results of experiments are 

 as follows : 



Cabbage is subject to, and often dies 

 from, stem rot, black rot, root rot and oth- 

 er diseases. The spores of these diseases 

 are generally present in sufficient quanti- 

 ties to inoculate the crop and only need fa- 

 vorable conditions for development. If, 

 then, something could be done so as to do 

 away with any conditions favoring the de- 

 velopment of these diseases, farmers could 

 work with more assurance of a crop. The 

 conditions of soil and weather are import- 

 ant factors. 



With a soil that is rich, spongy and full 

 of humus, a crop could not be grown in a 

 rainy season. It might be supposed that 

 if such a soil were thoroughly drained it 

 would insure a successful crop. This is 

 doubtful, however, as such soils hold water 

 like a sponge, and water drains very slow- 

 ly from a sponge, even if there isgood oppor- 

 tunity for it to pass ott below. Ihis amount 

 of water, however, is Ukely to dissolve and 

 hold in solution, enough soil salts to poison 

 the roots of the plants. The roots being 

 partly decayed cannot absorb sufficient wa- 

 ter to supply the needs of the plants at 

 this, the most trying season, of their 

 growth. This causes a check in the growth, 

 making favorable conditions for disease 

 germs to enter. 



During the three seasons in which cab- 

 bage could not be raised on the experiment 

 plot, good crops were being grown on soil 

 quite similar when considering the amount 

 of sand, clay and silt in each. They were 

 totally ditterent, however, in their capac- 

 ity to retain water. 



To be able to grow cabbage successfully in 

 this climate, in any season, the soil should 

 be in such condition that the water will 

 pass through it as Ireely as it would through 

 a piece of pumice stone or porous rock. As 

 a general rule the poorer the soil the drier 

 and more porous it is. Thus it is that on 

 the comparatively poor farms better late 

 cabbages are grown than in the market 

 gardens that are very rich. 



A sod field broken early in spring and well 

 manuied has generally been found to grow 

 the best cabbage. This does not apply to 

 the early crops ; these do best on the soils 

 that are rich and full of humus. 



Low priced fertilizers sometimes give as 

 good results as the higher priced goods, but 

 on the whole it will pay to be liberal with 

 nitrogen. The two experiments indicate 

 that it is profitable to use nitrate of soda 

 on the plant beds, at the rate of 450 to 600 

 pounds an acre. 



In localities and on soils where cabbage 

 diseases are prevalent, it is safer to plant 

 the type of cabbage with the purplish green 

 (;rinkled leaves. 



The crop generally seems to do better if 

 the field is marked off both ways and the 

 plnnts are set in the check and the cultiva- 

 t-(.'n is level. 



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