1 8 A MANUAL OF 



a good supply of cabbage and tomato plants 

 after the second. 



EARLY-CABBAGE SEEDS will be the first to 

 be sown in hot-beds in spring, especially if none 

 are wintered over in cold frames, and north of 

 the latitude of New York, as a general rule, it 

 is considered more risky and troublesome to 

 winter them over than to grow them in hot- 

 beds in spring. The seeds are generally sown 

 about the middle of February. 



NEVER sow BROADCAST, but always in drills 

 about four inches apart, and thinly enough so 

 the plants will not crowd each other and grow 

 spindling. It seems hardly necessary to urge 

 the importance of selecting the very best qual- 

 ity of seeds obtainable. If the seeds are in 

 any way inferior, all the labor of planting and 

 attending the crop, with its attendant risks, is 

 lost. Indeed, we can think of no parallel case 

 in which a supposed saving may result in 

 greater loss and waste than in sowing seeds 

 which you have the slightest idea may be infe- 

 rior, if those above suspicion can be obtained 

 at any price. Still this rule should not be so 

 rigidly adhered to as to suppose that the 

 dealer .or grower who charges the greatest 

 price must necessarily have the best article, for 



