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CHAPTER IX 



PAGES 



MARKETING 78-80 



The packing-house, 78 Honest packing, 80. 



CHAPTER X 

 VEGETABLES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES OR STEMS COLE CROPS 81-98 



Cabbage, 81 Seed-bed, 82 Sowing the seed of 

 cabbage, 82 Soils for cabbage, 83 Fertilizers for 

 cabbage, 84 Preparing cabbage for market, 85 

 Marketing cabbage, 85 Enemies of cabbage, 86 

 Varieties of cabbage, 86 Bulletins, 86 Brussels 

 sprouts, 87 Kale or borecole, 87 Collards, 88 

 Cauliflower, 89 Sowing seed of cauliflower, 90 

 Soil and fertilizer for cauliflower, 92 Setting out the 

 plants, 92 Cultivation of cauliflower, 93 Cutting, 93 



Crating cauliflower heads, 93 Seed production, 94 



Varieties of cauliflower, 94 Enemies, 95 Books 

 and bulletins, 95 Broccoli, 95 Kohlrabi, 97. 



CHAPTER XI 



VEGETABLES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES OR STEMS OTHER 



CROPS 99-133 



Lettuce, 99 Seed-bed for lettuce, 100 Preparing 

 the lettuce field, 102 Cultivation of lettuce, 102 

 Fertilizer, 102 Irrigation for lettuce, 103 Marketing 

 lettuce, 104 Lettuce seed raising, 104 Diseases, 105 



Varieties of lettuce, 106 Bulletins, 106 Endive, 

 106 Spinach, 107 Celery, 109 Soil for celery, 109 



Fertilizer for celery, 111 Seed sowing, 112 Trans- 

 planting celery, 1 13 Irrigation of celery, 116 Pre- 

 paring celery for market, 118 Diseases, 118 Varieties 

 of celery, 119 Bulletins, 119 Chicory, 119 Pars- 

 ley, 121 Cress, 122 Garden cress, 123 Upland 

 cress, 123 Water cress, 123 Asparagus, 124 Prep- 



