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found on lands where there is no oyster shell deposit, a 

 quarter of a mile distant, where Cabbages cannot be grown 

 two years in succession on the same land, unless heavily 

 dressed with lime, and even then, it is always deemed 

 safest never to plant Cabbages two years in succession on 

 the same ground ; for, while such crops as onions show 

 but little benefit by rotation with other crops, Cabbages 

 perhaps more than anything else, are benefited by such 

 alternation, and when it can be done, nothing is better 

 than to let the Cabbage crop be alternated with a green 

 crop, such as German Millet, Timothy or Clover, or 

 else a crop of Oats or Eye. 



This is the method pursued by many of the Long 

 Island market gardeners, who grow for the New York 

 market, where their lands are cheap enough to allow 

 them to do so. But the gardeners of Hudson County, 

 New Jersey, which is in sight of New York City, whose 

 lands now are limited in area, and for which an average 

 of 150 per acre rent is paid per annum, cannot well 

 afford to let their lands lay thus comparatively idle, and, 

 in consequence, do not now raise as fine crops as the lands 

 thus "rested" by the grass or grain crops. 



If the land for the Cabbage crop is of a kind suitable 

 to grow a good crop of Corn or Potatoes, and is tilled or 

 fertilized in the manner advised, it is rare indeed that a 

 crop will fail to head, if the plants are in good condition 

 and have been properly planted, unless they are attacked 

 by the maggot or "club root." In our trial ground, 

 where over a hundred different sorts of Cabbage are 

 tested each year, we have found that every kind of Cab- 

 bage tested, early or late, has produced solid heads, 

 showing that when the conditions are right, all kinds of 

 Cabbages will head up and produce a crop, though, of 

 course, some are earlier, larger and heavier than others 

 hence, the value of known selected kinds. 



A circumstance came under our notice in the summer 



