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plants are not set back by transplanting they mature in 

 a shorter time than transplanted ones. This makes it 

 practicable to sow the seed later than when the plants 

 are to be removed, and is sometimes an advantage. It 

 has the disadvantage, however, of having the plants 

 scattere'd over a large area when they are small and liable 

 to attack by insect enemies and they are more difficult 

 to cultivate than when in a seed bed. The thinnings 

 from the land where seed is sown in the hill may be set 

 elsewhere. 



Raising Cabbage by Transplanting. If the plants 

 are to be raised in a seed bed and then transplanted to 

 the open ground, the seed of such varieties as Late Flat 

 Dutch should be sown about the 10th of May; but if 

 Fotler's Improved Brunswick or other second early kind 

 is to be grown, the seed should not be sown until at least 

 ten days later; and such large, early-heading varieties 

 as Early Summer may be successfully raised for winter 

 use when their seed is sown as late as the first of June. In 

 any case the plants should be ready to set out by the last 

 of June, when they should be carefully transplanted. The 

 land should be thoroughly pulverized and marked out 

 three feet apart each way, unless it is to be manured in 

 the hills, when it should be furrowed out one way 

 and marked the other way. The plants should be set 

 at the intersections of the marks, but it is not a g'ood plan 

 to set them on top of the manure, but rather to put them 

 a little to one side of it. This is especially important 

 if the manure is not well rotted. The cultivation and after 

 treatme'nt are the same for late as for early cabbage. 



Cabbage from Seed Sown in the Hill. If the seed 

 is to be sown in hills, the land should be treated as recom- 

 mended when the plants are to be transplanted. It is 



