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60 McAfee's Nonsuch, 



no more like the genuine compact flower than deer's horns look like 

 roses. To secure early cauliflowers they must be planted early, well 

 enriched, often hoed, and, if the weather is dry, abundantly watered. 

 The most solid heads may be expected in October, after the autumn 

 rains commence. 



For an early cabbage of the common sorts we prefer the Wakefield ; 

 and a little later than this variety comes the early Winningstadt, with its 

 spiral, hai-d head. For a general winter crop the Stone Mason stands 

 unrivalled for uniform pi-oductiveness and market value. For family 

 use, however, the Savoy, with its tender, well-flavored, wrinkled leaves, 

 is as much preferable to the smooth-leaved varieties, as wrinkled sweet 

 corn is to common corn. All the varieties make good pickles, but the 

 Red Dutch is most sought for this purpose. This requires the richest 

 soil and nicest care to develop good sound heads. 



One of the most essential requisites to secure a good crop of cabbages 

 is good seed. This is important in the culture of all vegetables, but 

 especially so in the case of cabbages. Seed growers are not careful 

 enough in the selection of the plants from which to propagate. We 

 need thorough-bred vegetables as well as animals, and in order to secure 

 them must discriminate in the choice of seed. To get the very best we 

 must plant only large, well-shaped, hard-headed cabbages, and select 

 the seed from the perpendicular stalk, pinching off" the side shoots, so 

 that the centre may receive more nourishment. 



McAFEE'S NONSUCH. 



Our figure and description of this popular apple, perhaps now more 

 extensively planted in the West tlian any other variety, are from a 

 specimen given us by Mr. E. A. Colman, of Lawrence, Kansas, whose 

 extensive exhibition of apples is noticed elsewhere in this number of 

 the Journal. 



The size is large, form roundish, sometimes flattened, generally some- 

 what conical. Stem slender, in a very deep cavity, russeted within. 

 Calyx small, closed ; basin small and but slightly plaited. Skin yellow, 

 nearly covered with streaks and marblings of red, and the thickest of the 

 red broken through by yellow dots, each with a brown speck in the cen- 

 tre, and the whole covered with a heavy bloom. Core large and open, 

 seeds large, dark-brown. Flesh yellow, fine, crisp, juicy, well flavored, 

 and rich. Season, from October to February. Quality, " very good." 



