4<3 A MANUAL OF 



believe that not more than one half the cabbage 

 seeds sold in this country ever produce plants 

 which live to become of sufficient size for set- 

 ting in the field. The main crop of cabbage is 

 produced from plants which are set during 

 June and July, and at this hot season of the year 

 it is with considerable difficulty that plants 

 can be conveyed by express long distances, 

 even with packing carefully ; and the carrier's 

 charges are so high, that on purchased plants 

 the first cost is frequently doubled or even 

 trebled by the time they reach the planter. 



Knowing all these difficulties, we hope and 

 trust that every purchaser of this work will be 

 abundantly satisfied by our showing him how 

 to overcome and remedy them, inasmuch as 

 we do it at the risk of decreasing our own 

 plant trade. Now, in order to come at this 

 subject understandingly to our readers, we shall 

 have to follow it up in a sort of backward way, 

 after stating that the three evils above pic- 

 tured viz., Chib-root, White Maggot, and 

 Flea-beetle are dependent upon each other, in 

 the order named, for their own existence. 



CLUB-ROOT is an unnatural enlargement, of 

 a spongy or fungoid character, of the root of 

 the plant. It is not confined to the cabbage, 



