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rich enough, the Mammoth Marblehead are all excellent 

 varieties. I have said that late cabbages do not require 

 such rich land as the early. This is true, and yet it seems 

 to be a fact that when you sow the early varieties late in 

 the season, for the purpose of using them for a late fall or 

 winter crop, these smaller and earlier varieties will do 

 better on moderately rich or comparatively poor soil, 



Fig. 2. SAVOY CABBAGE. 



than the larger and later varieties. I know some experi- 

 enced cabbage growers who raise the Winningstadt for 

 the main crop, because they find that it is sure to head, 

 while, from want of plenty of manure, they can not grow 

 the larger and later varieties. When late cabbages are 

 raised as a field crop, a good plan is, to mark out the land 

 three feet apart each way, and set out a plant where the 

 lines cross. This gives four thousand eight hundred and 



