68 FAEM-GAKDENING AND SEED-GROWING. 



The cultivation of this variety is the same in these 

 cases as when grown for winter. 



Cutting and Marketing, The large or late kinds of 

 cabbage should always be solid, and their fitness for 

 market may readily be determined by pressing the band 

 on each head. 



They should be cut without any superfluous leaves 

 when sent to a city market, but in villages where people 

 have room for the purpose, most persons prefer to buy 

 them in quantity with the roots and leaves attached, t^iat 

 they may be buried and taken out as occasion may re- 

 quire. I might here add that it is customary for garden- 

 ers to allow dealers four heads extra to every one hun- 

 dred, and they in turn allow thirteen to the dozen. 



This rule applies generally to all vegetables growing 

 above ground, but not as a rule to roots which grow 

 below. 



Storing for Winter, Cabbages for using or marketing 

 in winter may be put away the same as when intended 

 for seed, described hereafter, but a much easier and quite 

 as good a plan, where the head only is to be preserved, is 

 to make a double row, setting the heads close together on 

 the .ground, roots upward, throwing one or two furrows 

 to them on each side, lightly covering and ridging with a 

 spade. 



Seed, Late varieties of cabbage, for seed, are grown 

 in their regular season, in the same manner as for market, 

 and as a general rule the crop is more certain than with 

 the early kinds ; hence, the stock of seed is generally 

 abundant, and prices are not so high. It is a good idea 

 to have late cabbages planted early, to make a choice 

 selection for stock seed; but for the main crop, that which 

 is planted about the twentieth of July, in moderately rich 

 soil, will keep the best, and be sufficiently advanced to 

 make a pure selection. The selections must be made ac- 

 cording to the characteristics of the variety, the same as 



