202 CABBAGE 



seed that this or any other vegetable can be improved, 

 or even its present good qualities maintained. It would 

 seera to be an easy matter to save and use only the seed 

 of a few of the most perfect Cabbn^. -. Iwr tli.' |.l:iiit is 

 capable of enormous seed product i<ni, \\ ■ h,i\> luown 



a single plant to yield 35 oum-.^ I - 1. i iMMi.;h, 



if every seed grew, to fiiniish the phmi^ Inr r»o acres; 

 but it is not quite -.. ^.i- :i- ilii- showing would make 

 it— first, because il !.>iied is an exceptional 



one, and, second I \ - \ ery seldom that an 



isolated plant vie I, I ,, ,i.,...i . , il. The flower of the 

 Cabbage is sexuallj ]., ti' . ; . I iliinl; tliere is no dis- 

 covered reason why iuiU\ : i nit- ;,n> self-impo- 

 tent, but we have never -i, ■ : iritting more 

 than a very few seeds fne I i il.uit. either in 

 the open air or when en.l.. ■ i , ; : i tij,'ht struc- 

 ture of glass and cL.tlj, in \\lil. li n tiuliil., r .,f i.ees were 



confined. Again, we iiaxe r-|M:it,,My i-..l:iir,l il,,. ]„■-.! 

 plant of an hundn-d. ^.itinu- the i .-i in ;t tj..ek, ami t)ie 

 few seeds ebtaii.ed lV.,i,,il,ri-<.lair,l |,ni.iu 1 plants 



:••'■■ '■■■■'' , ! ,, I '■ , ,-t one of our 



they will produce and give plants of the desired type. 

 In spite of those facts, we believe that the general rule 

 h ^ive the best results with other plants 

 il 1' fir ilie Cabbage, and that in this, 

 - 1 n.uld first form a distinct and 

 llaiit we wish to produce, and 



1 I ipiie which comes nearest to that 



.em iljat the necessity of a distinct and 

 d of exactly what we want to produce 

 'ident, but some seed-growers have a 

 very vague idea of the exact type wanted. Some years 

 ago we visited the originator of one of our best varieties, 

 for the purpose c.f learning what he considered the type 

 OL the V irietj He was an intelligent man, a good culti 

 vator and hid been growing this strain for over twenty 

 years He took ns iiit i tii Id i t i li in 1 ini Calluses 

 as we ever saw In i 1 i t i i iii n \\ 



asked him to si I i I i i I i 



fully noted its \ ' r 



part of the fir 1 1 i I, 



picked nut n ^ I I I i i 



terof til 1 th 



1 qual 



CACALIA 



plants will go through the winter and seed better than 

 those which are fully ripe when put away for the win- 

 ter. The plants are usually wintered in the manner 

 described for storing for market use, except that the 

 trench is usually narrower. The plants are set out for 

 seed-bearing as early as possible in the spring. It is 

 usually necessary to carefully open the head by two 

 cross-cuts with a knife in order to let the tender seed- 

 stalk break through. The plants are given double or 

 treble the space which they required the first year. It 

 is generally true that the more developed and better the 

 stock, the smaller the yield of seed. \y. w. Tracy. 



CAB6MB A (aboriginal name). Nymphm&cece. Haifa 

 ilozen aquatics of 'the western hemisphere, with small 

 flowers li'avint; ]iersisteiit sepals and petals, each 3 or 4, 

 and stamens few ; eai|H Is I'-.'i, free and distinct, and 

 snl.ni.-r^ed Ivs. lim-ly .li^seeted and mostly opposite. 



Caroliniana, llray ( r. nqiidtica, DC, not Aubl. C. 

 viriclildliu, Hort.). Floating Ivs. green, oblong-linear : 

 fls. white, with 2 yellow spots at base of each petal ; 

 stamens 6. N. Car., S. and W. A.G. 15:157.— (7. rosce- 

 fdlta, Hort., is a form with reddish Ivs. A.G. 15:157. 



The true C. aqudtica, Aubl., of trop. Amer., with 

 yellow fls. and nearly orbicular floating Ivs., is shown 

 in B.M. 7090. 



Cabomba CaroHni 

 of aquatics. It is oi 

 the aquarium. It is 

 District of Columbia 

 tained in quantities i 



L. H. B. 



is very largely used by growers 



f the inili-pensable plants for 



«ii iMiui Ix in North Carolina, 

 Mill . Li ml, « here it can be ob- 



per 



ithe 



vlieie It, is eoiumonly called Fish 

 Gra-^, w I i.iii.iii iirass,etc. It is tied in bunches with 

 a im ■ I ' ' J. -which acts as a weight, thus re- 



tain; i - !■ IN a natural position in water. In a 



mod. i:in I. nip, r,itiire it soon emits roots and grows 

 freely. It is a siilimerged plant, except in midsummer, 

 when the flowers are borne above the water, accompa- 

 nied by a few floating leaves. It is one of the best 

 plants for domestic fish. It also grows in New Jersey, 

 where it is quite hardv C rosafolia is tender does not 

 retain its delightful carmine coloring under confinement, 

 and 1 not so often met except m Florida 



William Thicker 



CACALIA (ancient Greek name) Comp6sitce Peren 

 111 I li il uf which 9 or 10 are native to the U S 

 lilt ill hermaphrodite with white or flesh colored 



1 II IS II h of the 5 lobes with a midnerve akenes 



heads 



breeder 1 1 I i \ mi t i breed from black red 



big or little i( ws ie„ iidless of anj thing but tli 



ity of then milk Ha\ ing formed a carefuIU 



ered ideal we should select from 10 to 100 of the 



plants which come nearest to it and from these make 



an extra selection of about one tenth of the lest ^ "* 



would set the whole lot m a nearlj square II I a\ iiti 



the extra selections m the center We woul 1 n n 1 



plant seed from each extra select plant b\ it ll n I 



haMne li\ m r\ < ir< fill e\ iinin itn ii i nitiii I In I 



planting th it th i [ will I pi t i ommg to maturity 

 at the time ot stoiin„ toi wiutei lixtures and inferior 

 plants cin be detected and thionn out then as well as 

 when the plants are fully matured and the younger 



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