80 THE SEED-GROWER. 



second method gives the best results and is otherwise 

 satisfactory. This is the method pursued by the lead- 

 ing commercial seed-growers; the economical advan- 

 tage of it being later sowing, and such plants winter 

 better than do solid heads; while the older and more 

 experienced growers contend that there is a bigger scope 

 for selection of plants for stock-seed in a large field of 

 partial heads, than there is in a small field of solid ones. 



Sowing of seed for this crop is to be timed so that the 

 plants will be just coming to a partial heading stage 

 when it will be necessary either to take them up for 

 winter storage or to cover them up in the field in such 

 climates where they can safely remain in the field over 

 winter. 



On Long Island, New York, this sowing is done for 

 Early Jersey Wakefield about July 5th; for Early Flat 

 Dutch and such varieties about June 20th; for Late 

 Flat Dutch and other late varieties, about June 5th, 

 transplanting early varieties from August 15th to August 

 30th; late sorts, from July 15th to July 31st. In this 

 locality, cabbage seed is usually harvested during the 

 last week in July of the following year. 



Along the Puget Sound in Washington, sowing is 

 done of early varieties about June 20th; late kinds 

 about May 20th; transplanting of the former to the field 

 is done about July 25th; the latter about July 5th. 

 Medium early varieties are sown about ten days later 

 than the late sorts. 



Sowing is first made in seed-bed, in rows ten inches 

 apart, and when plants are of sufficient size, they are 

 transferred to rows two feet apart, sixteen inches in the 

 row; about November 10th (on Long Island) they are 

 taken up for winter storage. 



In Washington the plants are transplanted from seed 



