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market, where their lands are cheap enough to allow 

 them to do so; but the gardeners of Hudson County, 

 New Jersey, which is in sight of New York city, whose 

 lands now are limited in area, and for which an average 

 of $50.00 per acre rent is paid per annum, cannot well 

 afford to let their lands lay thus comparatively idle, and 

 in consequence do not now raise as fine crops as the lands 

 thus "rested " by the grass or grain crops. 



If the land for the Cabbage crop is of a kind suitable 

 to grow a good crop of Corn or Potatoes, and is tilled or 

 fertilized in the manner advised, it is rare indeed that a 

 crop will fail to head, if the plants are in good condition, 

 and have been properly planted, unless they are attacked 

 by the maggot or "club root." In our trial grounds, 

 where over a hundred different stocks of Cabbage are 

 tested each year, we have found that every kind of Cab- 

 bage tested, early or late, has produced solid heads, 

 showing that when the conditions are right all kinds of Cab- 

 bages will head up and produce a crop. 



A circumstance came under our notice in the summer 

 of 1882, which well illustrates the necessity for care in 

 planting. We had sold, some time in February, a large 

 lot of our " Early Summer " Cabbage seed to two market 

 gardeners in Rochester, N. Y. The orders were filled 

 from the same bag of seed. Some time about the end of 

 June one of the men wrote, saying that he had evidently 

 got some spurious kind of Cabbage from us, as his 

 neighbor was marketing his crop, while in his field of ten 

 acres he had not a head fit to cut, nor were there any 

 appearance of their ever doing so, he thought. Investi- 

 gation showed that no maggot, " club root," or other 

 insect was affecting the roots; the land was nearly iden- 

 tical with that which had made a successful crop, and 

 had been equally well manured and cultivated. So the 



