HOW TO GROW CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER. 137 



HOW TO GROW 

 CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER, 



(EARLY AND LATE.) 



IN answer to hundreds of inquiries that are made to 

 me each season in relation to the various phases of Cab- 

 bage and Cauliflower culture, I find it necessary to write 

 a special article on this subject, much of the information 

 given being in reply to and in anticipation of the various 

 questions that have been and are likely to be asked. 



SOIL. 



Cabbage is much easier managed than Cauliflower, and 

 is, consequently, more certain of giving a crop, even 

 under unfavorable conditions. The first condition of 

 success with the Cabbage crop, like that of nearly every 

 other vegetable, is the right kind of soil. The best soil 

 for Cabbage is a rather sandy loam, not less than ten 

 inches deep, the subsoil under which should be sand or 

 gravel; a clayey or stiff subsoil is uncongenial to almost 

 every crop. Not only does it delay operations in spring, 

 as such soils dry slowly, but even when fit to work, the 

 labor on soils having a clay or " hard pan " subsoil is 

 nearly twice that of lighter soils, and usually with less 

 satisfactory results. It may be superfluous to say that, 

 unless the soil for Cabbage is drained artificially or 

 naturally, (by a sand or gravel subsoil.) success is impos- 

 sible. This, of course, is true of nearly every crop 

 grown. 



