142 GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 



" Early Summer " variety. Again, if much later than 

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

 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 5th 

 of September, and nearly every plant ran to seed. The 

 gardener sued the seedsman for damages, and got non- 

 suited, 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 2oth of 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 transplant into the cold frames. The 

 plant must be planted down to the first leaf, and the 

 root well firmed with the dibber. About 500 plants are 

 allowed for a 3 x 6 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 high. We generally have all 

 our Cabbage plants transplanted here from the seed-bed 

 to the cold frames by the istof 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, after the transplanting is finished in October, 



