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and the plants would not be strong enough to keep over winter in the 

 cold frames. 



A case occurred some years ago in Philadelphia where a market 

 gardener sowed "Early York" cabbage on the 6th of September; 

 nearly every plant ran to seed. The gardener sued the seedsman for 

 damages, got nonsuited, as he deserved, as the seedsman had no 

 difficulty in showing that other gardeners who had purchased this 

 same seed, and who had sown it at the proper time (in that latitude, 

 20th September), had no such bad results. 



In about thirty days from the time cabbage seed is sown in 

 September, the plants are of the right size to " prick out," or trans- 



HENDERSON'S EABLY SUMMER CABBAGE. 



plant into the cold frames. The plant must be planted down to the 

 first leaf, the root well firmed with the dibber about 500 is the 

 number allowed for a three by six feet sash. The cold frame, as 

 most gardeners know, is simply two boards run parallel six feet apart, 

 the back board being ten inches and the front one seven or eight 

 inches. We generally have all our cabbage plants transplanted here 

 from the seed-bed to the cold frames by 1st November, and it seldom 

 happens that we have the weather cold enough to have the sashes 

 put on before the end of November. We are repeatedly asked the 

 question, 



WHAT DEGREE OF FROST CABBAGE PLANTS WILL STAND 



in the frames before being covered with the sash. Much depends 

 on the condition of the plants; it sometimes happens that after the 

 transplanting is finished in October (we usually begin the trans- 



