MARKET GARDENING AND FARMERS' GARDENS. 647 



The Northern gardeners do not get their crop in mayket until 

 June. The sale is limited, but it pays fifteen hundred dollars 

 per acre. 



Cabbages. It is a fact not generally known that cabbages 

 are the largest and most profitable crop grown by the market 

 gardeners at the North. The seeds are sown in September and 

 the plants carefully wintered in cold frames, yet they pay a 

 handsome profit. But at the South, where the temperature 

 does not fall twenty degrees below the freezing point, the seed 

 can be sown in the open ground in October, and planied out on 

 the first opening of spring. 



Put out the plants in rows twenty-four inches apart, and 

 sixteen inches apart in the rows. Set the plant down to the 

 first leaf, so that all the stem will be covered. Between the 

 rows, lettuce plants can be set out twelve incnes apart. The 

 lettuce will all be off in six or eight weeks, before the cabbage 

 is large enough to occupy the ground, and the cabbages are ofi' 

 soon enough to plant a second crop. A crop of cabbage and 

 lettuce so raised will often bring one thousand dollars per acre. 

 Late cabbage is a crop the Northern farmer can raise; the soil 

 and cultivation is not so important. Sow the seed in May, and 

 plant out in July inirows three feet apart, and two feet apart in 

 the row, and work the crop with the cultivator or light plow. 

 On Long Island they are set out after a crop of peas or early 

 potatoes have been removed. Eight to twelve tons of stable 

 manure is put in the rows. As the early cabbages are raised 

 at the South and shipped North, so the late cabbage grown at 

 the North are shipped South. Both early and late varieties 

 are named in " Oardea CuUureP 



Early Sweet Corn can also be raised to advantage at the 

 South for the Northern market. Where the planting can be 

 commencod in April the crop, if highly manured, can be brought 



