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summer kinds will be enough, but quite a quantity of the fall and 

 winter sorts should be planted — say five or six rows. 



The Cabbage. As far as the cultivation of the cabbage is 

 concerned, as pertaining to the kitchen garden, it is about as well 

 to buy a few plants and set them out when the suitable time 

 comes, as it is to try to raise them, unless one has some hot- 

 beds or desires to raise the plants for the pleasure of so doing. 

 For early use the seed should be sown in the hot-bed or a box in 

 a sunny window about February 15th, covering the seed about half 

 an inch deep. The plants will be read}' to set in the garden 

 about the 20th of April, before which time they should be trans- 

 planted at least twice to make good stock}- plants of them. Set 

 the plants from two to three feet apart each way, according to 

 the variet}', and cultivate often. A good crop of winter cabbages 

 can be raised by sowing the seed in the open ground from the 

 10th to the 20th of June ; drop a few seeds in each hill, and when 

 the plants are well up thin them out, leaving them about three 

 feet apart. 



The Early Jersey', Wakefield, and Henderson's Early Summer 

 are good for earl}- use, while Fottler's Brunswick and Stone 

 Mason Drumhead are standards for fall and winter. Half a row 

 of the early varieties will be found sufficient, and as to the late 

 sorts, I usualh' plant quite a quantitj', as there will be plenty 

 of room for them after the pea crop has been gathered and cleared 

 away. 



The Cauliflower. Although the cauliflower is more adapted 

 for growth by the experienced market gardener than it is by the 

 amateur, 3'et there is no reason why a corner of our garden 

 cannot be devoted to this most excellent vegetable, and good 

 cauliflowers grown. The plants are set out and cultivated the 

 same as cabbages, and should be transplanted at least twice 

 befox'e they are set where they are to remain, so that they may 

 become good and stocky, thereby having sufficient vitality to 

 commence at once a good growth. You can raise your own 

 plants by sowing some seed in a box in a window or in the hot- 

 bed, or, at the proper season, plants can be purchased and set 

 out. The Early Snowball and Dwarf Erfurt are both desirable 

 sorts. Let us set at least a row, which will take say sevent3'-five 

 plants. 



Celery. Celery is also a market gardener's crop, but is easily 



