SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



in the season. Shade and water the late sowings 

 in dry weather to get them up. 



It is important that the plants should stand 

 thinly in the seed-bed, or they will run up weak 

 and slender, and be likely to make long stumps. 

 When the weather is hot and dry the roots of the 

 plants may be dipped in a puddle of loam and 

 water, and transplanted just at evening, giving 

 each plant a gill of water at the root. If planting 

 seeds in hills twenty-two inches apart, plant six 

 or eight seeds; of such as come up, reserve one 

 and transplant the rest. 



Late cabbages are usually grown as a second 

 crop, following peas or something similar in cul- 

 ture; or they may be set on newly turned land 

 which has been in early grain or grass. It is not 

 generally necessary to apply as much manure as 

 for the early crop; twelve cords is usually an 

 abundant dressing, especially where they follow 

 some other crop which has been well manured 

 the same season. 



To keep cabbage through the winter, commence 

 by making a small bank, say about one and a 

 half feet high, in some sheltered locality. Pull 

 the cabbage, and place the heads against the bank 



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