436 GARDENING FOR MARKET. 



one side being prepared for cabbages and the other for such 

 other crops as will not interfere with the growth of cab- 

 bages the next year. 



The first operation is the preparation of the ground for 

 early cabbages, for which we devote a space of about one 

 acre. 



The manure which was spread in the fall should be 

 lightly ploughed in not deep enough to turn up the old sod 

 and a thousand pounds of Peruvian guano, two thousand 

 pounds of fish guano, or fifteen hundred pounds of bone- 

 dust, should be evenly sown over the ground, and thoroughly 

 harrowed in. Either of these manures will cost about $40. 

 As early as it is possible to get the ground into proper con- 

 dition, as described above, the cabbage plants in the cold 

 frame should be set out, in rows two feet apart, and about 

 16 inches apart in the rows. It will probably be best to 

 plant three-fourths of the piece with the Jersey Wakefield, 

 and the remainder with the Brunswick, which will begin to 

 be fit for market at about the time when the Wakefield is 

 all sold. 



This amount of land will receive about 15,000 plants, 

 leaving about 20,000 plants to be sold from the frame. If 

 the value of cold frame plants is understood in the vicinity, 

 they will be readily taken up at $10 per thousand. 



If there is a good summer market for lettuce, the Early 

 Curled Simpson may be set out between the rows of cabbage, 

 when it will grow to a marketable size before the whole 



