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can be sown between the cabbage rows, and be out before the cabbage needs 

 all the room. After cabbage, celery can be so^vn, on the same ground. In 

 this way other vegetable plants can be raised to advantage. In fact, I have 

 raised all the following with success: Early cauliflower, early lettuce, early 

 kohlrabi, early savoy, early celery, early beet, early tomatoes, early 

 cucumbera and early squashes. 



Fei-tillzer for Cabbage—" I find," says a writer in the New England 

 Homestead, "that cabbage needs more hoeing and stining of the soil than 

 almost any other crop. Neither do I approve of too much stable manure, 

 except for an early crop, for it has a tendency to dry the soil and does not 

 furnish potash enough. I had much rather have tobacco stems or stalks, cut 

 up fine and plowed under broadcast, with some chemicals in the drill, for a 

 medium or late crop. . As to chemicals, whether to be used alone or in com- 

 bination with other manures, I recommend this formula as being best and 

 cheapest, which every farmer must make for himself: Two hundred pounds 

 of dry groimd fish, two hundred pounds of bone meal dissolved in sulphuric 

 acid, two hundred pounds castor pomace and one hundred pounds of 

 muriate potash, or more if the potash salts (kainit) are used. The fish and 

 castor pomace fui-nish ammonia in quick and slow forms; the bone, phos- 

 phoric acid; while the potash is very necessarj' to a cabbage crop. A ton of 

 this mixture costs about $40, and is sixlficient for an acre wit*h light manuring, 

 or half the quantity if manure is used liberally. This is the best cabbage 

 grower I have found. "With it and tobacco stalks, used as described, I raised 

 cabbages that weighed over twenty pounds. One dozen, as they were taken 

 to market, weighed over two hundred pounds." 



Novel Method of Growing Cabbages. — A novel plan for setting 

 celery and cabbage plants which has several desirable points to recommend 

 it, is to place them between the rows of j'our potatoes or sweet com after the 

 last hoeing. The growing corn or potatoes wUl afford a partial shade which 

 is very desirable at the time of setting the young plants and until they get 

 fully established, and yet ripen and can be removed in time for them to 

 occupy the ground as a second crop. Two crops on one piece of ground 

 with ten dollars' worth of labor and manure will afford more profit than one 

 crop on which five dollars are expended. 



Parsley. — No garden is complete without a parsley bed, and nothing 

 looks prettier or more ornamental. It is not only useful in soups, but for 

 garnishing dishes of meats and vegetables it cannot be surpassed. The only 

 objection to it is its slow germination. As a small bed of parsley is sufficient 

 for a family garden, the labor necessary to its cultivation is trifling, as tho 

 attention to a few square yards of ground can hardly bo considered an 

 encroachment upon regular work. It is a native of Sardinia and loves warm 

 weather, but owing to the length of time required for the seeds to germinate, 

 it should be sown very early. It the seed is soaked for twenty-four hours 

 in warm water, previous to sowing, they will sprout in shorter time, or, what 

 is better, mix them with earth dampened with Avann water, and keep near 

 tho stove in a box until the seeds burst. The earth in the box should not 

 be allowed to become dry from evaporation, but the moisture should be 

 kept by frequent additions of warm water, care being observed not to have it 

 too wet. The ground should bo very rich, with well-rotted manure if any 

 is used, spaded deep and fine, and well raked, in order that not the smullcst 

 lump or stone may remain. Then sow the seed in rows, mixed with r-idisL, 



