PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE 



row. At this distance, the plants will be crowded before 

 they are full-grown ; and crowded plants have more 

 tender leaves than do plants with more room. In the 

 Normal School garden, mustard matures in 44 days. 



Pe Chai. Pe chai is a Chinese plant which is planted 

 and used like mustard. It is really a cabbage, but does 

 not form heads in the Philippines. If the outer leaves 

 are always removed before they become old, new ones 



will keep on grow- 

 ing, so that the 

 same plants will 

 produce fresh 

 leaves for several 

 months. 



Cabbage. Cab- 

 bages are better 

 planted in seed 

 beds, because they 

 need to be far apart, and it is a waste of time to have to 

 cultivate the ground between them while they are very 

 small. In the mountains very fine and large cab- 

 bages are grown; but in the plains of the Philippines, 

 where they will grow only in the dry season, they 

 are not large and not as hard as they should be. They 

 should not be planted later than October, because 

 they require a long season, and because the insects 

 which attack them are least numerous early in the 

 dry season. Cabbages should be 50 cm apart in each 

 direction. 



FIG. 53. A cabbage field 



