172 The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



For summer and autumn supplies seed should be sown early 

 in March and at intervals afterwards. The plants are set out in 

 small batches wherever ground becomes vacant. 



In some gardens the surplus plants from the August sowing 

 are pricked out in rather poor soil so as to keep them in good 

 but hard condition, and these are set out in any mild spell 

 through the winter as a piece of land is got ready. Some of 

 the plants are not put into their final quarters until spring, when 

 they come ready before those raised from spring sowing. 



In places where a private or shop trade is catered -for it 

 will be found a good plan to cut off in succession part of the 

 Cabbages just below the head, leaving a few of the bottom 

 leaves. These presently break out with a number of tender 

 small heads, much valued by those who appreciate young and 

 tender cabbage sprouts. If the ground they occupy is not im- 

 mediately wanted these stumps will yield a second crop of 

 small heads after the first are removed. 



Manures: Cabbage are gross feeders, and the soil must 

 receive liberal quantities of farmyard manure if their cultiva- 

 tion is to be conducted successfully. The presence of lime in 

 the soil is essential to their healthy growth, and for this reason 

 the phosphates in the supplementary fertilizers necessary to a 

 good crop should be derived from basic slag or limphos. A 

 suitable dressing would be 8 cwt. basic slag or 3j cwt. limphos 

 and 4 cwt. kainit to the acre, spread and harrowed in before 

 planting in September, with from 1 to 2 cwt. nitrate of soda, 

 in two dressings, the first as soon as growth has started well 

 in the spring and the second two or three weeks afterwards. 



Varieties : For autumn planting : Myatt's Early Offenham, 

 Sutton's Flower of Spring, Hurst's First and Best, Mein's No. 1, 

 Webb's Emperor, Wheeler's Imperial, Evesham Early. For 

 spring and summer sowing : Early Etampes, Ellam's Early, 

 Express, Nonpariel, Early Dwarf York, Glory, Enfield Market, 

 Sutton's Imperial, Daniel's Defiance. 



Red Cabbage for pickling is sown in July and August. It is 

 treated in a similar manner to the ordinary Cabbage, but needs 

 more room and occupies the ground longer. It needs rich and 

 deeply worked soil. Set the plants out at least 3ft. apart and 

 take catch crops off the space between. Variety : Red Dutch. 



