INDEX. 



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Broccoli ....................... 81 



Brussels Sprouts .............. 86 



cultivation of ............... 86 



varieties of ................. 89 



Bulb lands of Holland ......... iv 



Cabbage, its history ............. 17 



All Head ................. 23-53 



All Seasons and Vandergaw ---- 52 



and cauliflower plants injured 



by a check in transplanting. .36 

 conditions of soil for .......... 26 



cultivation .................. 46 



distance apart to set ........ 28-38 



favored soils for ............. 26 



for sauerkraut ............... 68 



groups of .................... 24 



Danish Ball Head group ...... 65 



Flat Dutch or Drum-head 

 group ................. ; ... 58 



intermediate sorts group ...... 59 



6 



red cabbage group 



Savoy group ................. 1 



Wakefield and Winningstadt. . .54 

 how much seed per acre ...... 44 



intermediate sorts ............ 59 



Mammoth Rock Red .......... 64 



Market Gardener's Private 



Stock .................... 60 



new varieties due to local 



causes ..................... 19 



planting the seed where the 



plants are to grow ......... 41 



quality changed by cultivation. .47 

 rotation of crops ............ 44 



seed bed, its location ........ 30 



how to prepare for a late 



crop ...................... 33 



how much per acre ........... 44 



selection the parent of new 



varieties ................... 1 8 



selection as practiced on Long 



Island .................... 18 



soils and situations for ........ 25 



Stein's, how secured ........ 24 



the Alpha ......... . .......... 66 



to keep through winter for 



the market ................ 48 



to keep through winter for 



family use ................. 51 



transplanting ................ 35 



types and varieties ............ 51 



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Cauliflower 69 



as an early summer crop 72 



cultivation 69 



grown under glass 72 



sensitive to checks 71 



- varieties 74 



seed 74 



Collards 82 



branching 85 



Corn making two sets of roots, .xiii 

 Cultivator the cause of failure 



of crops xv 



Deep planting a cause of fail- 

 ure xiii 



Feeding roots of plants xii 



Fungous diseases no 



club root no 



black rot 119 



German greens or sprouts 92 



Insects, injurious 96 



cabbage worm 96 



Pieris rapae 96 



cabbage looper 98 



Plusia brassicae 98 



cabbage plutella 104 



zebra caterpillar 104 



cutworms 105 



cabbage maggot i 06 



harlequin cabbage bug 107 



cabbage aphis 109 



Intensive farming viii 



Kale or borecole 90 



Scotch 91 



Siberian 91 



brown or purple 92 



Kohl-rabi 93 



how to cook 95 



varieties 94 



Lime, the value of. .*. . .46 



Manure, to be always in readi- 

 ness viii 



value of, lost in application, .viii 



Sauerkraut, cabbage for 68 



Seed beds x 



Seeds, why they fail to grow x 



systematic assistance in serv- 

 ing xiv 



to be sown at the proper time, x 



Soil an arbitrary question iv 



Tillage essential to good crops.,.. v 



