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CABBAGES. HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 



Wakefield the heads are usually somewhat conical, but 

 sometimes nearly round ; in structure they arc compact. 

 In earliness it ranks 

 about with the Early 

 Wakefield, and mak 

 ing heads of double 

 the size, it has a high 

 value as an early 

 cabbage. Captain 

 Wyman had entire 

 control of this cab- 

 bage until within 

 the past few years, and consequently has held Boston 

 Market in his own hands to the chagrin of his fellow mar- 

 ket gardeners, raising some seasons as many as thirty 

 thousand heads. Have the rows from two to two and a 

 half feet apart, and the plants from twenty to twenty-four 

 inches apart in the row. Crane's Early is a cross be- 

 tween the Wyman and Wakefield, intermediate in size 

 and earliness. 



Premium Flat Dutch. A large, late variety; heads 

 either round or 

 fiat, on the top, 

 ( v a r y i n g 

 with differ- 

 ent strains) 

 rather hard, 

 color bluish" 

 green, leaves 

 around heads 

 rather numcr 

 ous ; towards 

 the close of 

 the season, 



