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kinds do this quicker than others. The cabbage 

 probably will change less in one year than most other 

 vegetables. When it has been grown for a long 

 number of years in one locality its type becomes 

 fixed, and will only revert back, or vary from the 

 type formed, when grown under changed conditions, 

 as slowly or in the same length of time as it took to 

 establish it. But there is a point that should be well 

 considered, viz., types will gradually change charac- 

 ter in proportion to the change there is in soil and 

 climate. As an instance, if the seed has been grown 

 for a series of years in a comparatively cold climate, 

 where the season of growth is short, and then is 

 taken to a warm climate, where there is but little, if 

 any, winter, the type would be lost with the first 

 year's crop of seed. For that reason cabbage seed 

 that will reproduce solid heads cannot be produced 

 in warm countries. 



SOILS AND SITUATIONS. 



The question is often asked : Can cabbage be 

 successfully grown in all soils and situations? To 

 which query we reply : Yes, as readily as any other 

 vegetable, and in most localities it is a very simple 

 matter. But the conditions favorable do not always 

 exist, and experiment alone will teach the important 

 lesson. It was supposed, but a few years ago, that 

 a clay soil was not suited to the cabbage, and no 

 special efforts were made to grow it on such soils. 

 But now, in localities where it was then thought 

 impossible to grow cabbage at all, it is a profitable 

 crop at $5.00 per ton delivered to the cars. In such 

 localities, growers have learned by experience that 



