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eighteen to twenty-four inches high, throw the earth to 

 them for support ; or what is better still, tie to stakes, but 

 avoid bunching the branches ; a very convenient plan is 

 to place stakes twelve feet apart along every row, and 

 from one to the other firmly stretch tarred marline or 

 spun yarn, to which the stalks may be attached by bass- 

 mat or other flat strings. This marline may be preserved 

 and used many seasons. 



Another plan which I have tried successfully is to mark 

 out deep furrows, four feet apart, running north and south, 

 in which a light dressing of very rotten manure is placed, 

 and with a hoe thoroughly mixed with the soil at the bot- 

 tom of the furrow, and the plants from the second or third 

 sowing, set therein, eighteen inches apart ; in the fall all 

 impure heads taken out, the remainder, without being 

 pulled, bent over and treated in all further respects the 

 same as fyy the. plan above described. 



Another plan, and the one best adapted for preserving 

 solid heads, is to put them away as hereinafter described 

 for " late cabbage," or to heel them in thick in a. cold- 

 frame, cover with shutters, and set them out and cultivate 

 the same as " late cabbage " for seed, under which head I 

 also give directions for harvesting and cleaning the seed, 

 which operation is the same with early and late. 



Varieties, The varieties of early cabbage are numer- 

 ous, but there are very few in general cultivation, and 

 I will only notice such as are in favor with market-gar- 

 deners. 



Early Jersey Wakefield, On account of the attention 

 this variety is now attracting, a brief history of it may not 

 be amiss here. It was first grown in this country by my 

 uncle, Francis Brill, then of Jersey City, N. J., and by 

 him received from England under the name it still bears, 

 about thirty years ago, and proved to be the best early 

 cabbage of that time, as it is still there, and wherever 



