CHAPTER XVII. 



VEGETABLES, THEIR VARIETIES AND CUL- 

 TIVATION. 



In describing the modes of cultivating the different va- 

 rieties of vegetables, I shall notice at length only those 

 of the most importance, and the most profitable for market 

 purposes, while for those of less value as market crops, the 

 directions for culture will be such as are adapted to private 

 gardens only. 



A limited number of kinds will be described, and such 

 only as our experience has shown to possess the greatest 

 earliness and productiveness. Nothing is more perplexing 

 to the beginner, than to be bewildered by descriptions of, 

 perhaps twenty, so-called varieties of a vegetable, that per- 

 haps, in reality, does not embrace four distinct kinds. For 

 exam pie, in early Cabbages, there are some hundred or more 

 varieties described ; yet we find, after having experi- 

 mented with some scores of kinds in our time, there is 

 one vaiiety more profitable to grow than any other, viz. 

 the Jersey Wakefield, which is grown in this locality to 

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