VEGETABLES CABBAGE AXD TAULIFLOWER. 157 



the insect; it only enabled the Cabbage to outgrow its 

 attack. 



This season (1886), after plowing our Cabbage 

 ground, we gave it a heavy dressing of lime, thick 

 enough to almost completely whiten the ground. This 

 was thoroughly harrowed in, and to further help against 

 the attack of the maggot, after the plants had been set 

 out three or four weeks, we removed the earth around 

 the stem, and again sprinkled a little lime around it. 

 This has completely stopped the attack of the maggots, 

 for, in a portion of a neighbor's field adjoining, the mag- 

 gots have nearly destroyed the crop. 



But one of the best preventives against the maggot is 

 to plant early, so that the plants get strong enough to 

 overcome their attack. Our market gardeners here 

 rarely have trouble with their main early crops, which 

 are planted last of March or first week in April. In our 

 own trial grounds, having to wait until our samples come 

 in, we do not get our seeds of early Cabbage and Cauli- 

 flower sown until first week in March, which is a month 

 too late, hence the liability of the too tender plants to the 

 attack of the maggot. One of the most common mis- 

 takes of the inexperienced market gardener is, to delay 

 the planting of early Cabbage too late. Many of them in 

 this latitude delay planting until May, which, if the 

 ground is dry enough to work, had far better be done in 

 April. 



For the destruction of the insect which causes the 

 excrescence known as "club root" in Cabbage, a heavy 

 dressing of lime in fall and spring will check it to a great 

 extent. In fact, on lands adjacent to the shores of New 

 York Bay, where the soil is mixed with oyster shells, 

 "club root" is rarely seen, Cabbage having been grown 

 on some fields, successively, for fifty years, without a trace 

 of it being seen, showing that the insect which causes the 

 "club root" cannot exist in contact with lime ; for it is 



