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grows enough to interfere with them, and it is necessary that this 

 double crop should be taken off the land so as to help pay for the 

 manure that is so lavishly used, but which is absolutely necessary to 

 produce a good crop of cabbages. Where early cabbage is grown 

 alone (and for the fanner, whose labor is scarce, they had better be 

 grown alone), then it would be better to plant about two or two and 

 a half feet each way, so that cross cultivation can be done ; and also 

 in cases where manure in sufficient quantities is not attainable, they 

 are better thus planted when manure has to be applied in the hill. 

 If applied in the hill, a good shovelful of stable manure should be 

 used to each, mixing it well with the soil, but raising the " hill," so 

 called, no higher than the general surface. The 



RAISING OF CABBAGE PLANTS 



for the early crop is a very important point, though when small 

 quantities are wanted they had better be bought from those who make 

 a business of growing them. The great majority of plants for early 



EARLY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. 



crop are sown by the New York market gardeners between the 15th and 

 20th of September, that is, when the "Early Wakefield" is used; but 

 the "Early Summer" should not be sown until the 25th to the 30th 

 of September. Careful attention is given to have the sowings made as 

 near as possible to these dates, for if earlier, many of the plants will 

 go to seed particularly the " Early Summer " variety. Again, if much 

 later than the dates last given, the season will be too far advanced 



