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has changed its habit to a remarkable degree, without 

 a change in its distinctive character, leads us to hope 

 for similar results with this group. 



Our trial ground experiments have taught us 

 a valuable lesson, which is, that it is folly to look for 

 good results with this class of cabbage with ordinary 

 cultivation. The best results are only obtainable 

 when it is grown on sod ground, which should be 

 liberally treated with stable manure before plowing, 

 after which tilth should be as thorough as the nature 

 of the soil will permit. When the plants are ready 

 to set, apply one hundred pounds nitrate of soda per 

 acre in the rows and another one hundred pounds 

 just as the heads begin to form ; apply the last as 

 near the plants as possible and cover with the culti- 

 vator. This will give a crop, in a good season, of 

 from twenty-five to thirty tons per acre. 



To this class might be added Gregory's Hard 

 Heading Cabbage (syn. Luxemburg) which shows 

 plainly its parentage, in its specific character. This 

 strain has an enviable reputation on Long Island, as 

 a good keeper. Many farmers use it exclusively for 

 burying, and they affirm that it keeps perfectly in 

 the trenches until April, with the loss of but few out- 

 side leaves, and that the heads come from the 

 trenches perfectly white, which is characteristic of 

 the class from which it originated. 



THE ALPHA. 



This does not belong to any well-defined class, 

 but has so many characteristics peculiarly its own as 

 to constitute it an individual type, or class by itself. 

 In earliness it is a peer of the Early Jersey Wake- 



