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Seeds for the crop following this early crop should be 

 sowed in March. Of course these seeds should be of a 

 later variety than the first used. The young plants should 

 be transplanted as soon as they are large enough. Early 

 cabbages are set in rows three feet apart, and the plants 

 are set eighteen inches apart in the row. As the later 

 varieties grow larger than the earlier ones, the plants 

 should be set two feet apart in the row. 

 / x fn growing late fall and winter cabbage, the time of 

 sowing varies with the climate. For the Northern and 

 Middle States, seeding should be done in the last of March 

 and in April. South of a line passing west from Virginia 

 it is hard to carry 

 cabbages through 

 the heat of sum- 

 mer and get them 

 to head in the fall. 

 However, if the 

 seeds are sowed 

 about the first of 

 August in rich 

 and moist soil, 

 and the plants set 

 in the same sort 

 of soil in Septem- 

 ber, large heads can be secured for the December market. 



Celery. In the extreme northern part of our country, 

 celery seeds are often sowed in a greenhouse or hotbed. 

 This is done in order to secure early plants for summer 

 blanching. This plan, however, suits only very cool 

 climates. 



FIG. 226. PATTY-PAN SQUASH 

 Copyright, 1904, Doubleday, Page & Co. 



