VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



sorts, it should be planted a little farther apart, 

 say about twenty inches in the row, and the rows 

 three and a half feet apart. 



Of the main crop or second early varieties, 

 All Season, Fottler's Brunswick, Succession and 

 Rawson's Perfection are worthy of mention. 



All these have larger heads than the extra early 

 sorts and are very compact and solid. 



For late or winter varieties, Stone Mason, 

 Drumhead, and Danish Ball Head are the best 

 sorts for the market gardener. The heads of the 

 Stone Mason are very large, round, wonderfully 

 solid and of a crispness and tenderness that are 

 remarkable. 



Danish Ball Head or Emperor is famous for 

 its hard-heading qualities. The remarkably solid 

 heads are round in form, and keep in excellent 

 condition when buried during the winter, often 

 coming out in the spring perfectly solid. 



The wider planting is better, even in places 

 where cabbages are sold entirely by weight. We 

 do not doubt that by setting two feet apart each 

 way just as many pounds per acre could be raised; 

 but the advantage in the wider style of planting is 

 that fewer plants will be required per acre, and 



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