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On upland soil, however, where onion growing is somewhat i)recarious and 

 uncertain, transplanting pays even with these varieties. 



Of the second early and late sorts those that give the best results by thi^ 

 method are White Victoria, Prizetaker, Rocca and Pompeii. Prizetaker, is also 

 known as Maule's' Prizetaker, and the Spanish King of some dealers is the same, 

 while with others it is (juite different. Rocca is also known as ( jiant Red Rocca 

 and New Giant Rocca. Pompeii comes under various names such as Giant Pom- 

 peii, Red Mammoth Pompeii and Mammoth Pompeii. Rocca and Pompeii possess 

 considerable merit, but both are so badly mixed with other varieties as to make 

 them quite unsatisfactory. White \'ictoria and Prizetaker are the best of all the 

 varieties, for the general crop, thus far tested. Both attain a large size, frequently 

 weighing more than a pound each. They have, at the station, in several 

 instances yielded at the rate of fifteen hundred bushels per acre, and two 

 thousand bushels per acre is quite within the bounds of possibility. — Bulletin 

 Ohio Expv. Station. 



BEST FERTILIZER FOR CABBACxE HILLS. 



I THER ashes or bone, separately, or phosphate, such as are 

 to be found in the market, make excellent starters for cab- 

 bage, when well fixed in the hills. I have sometimes put 

 these in the hills before planting. At other times, when I 

 had reason to fear that they would not be sufficiently well 

 mixed with the soil to prevent killing the young plants, I 

 have had them scattered around the plants just before 

 hoeing them, taking care to cover the fertilizer with the 

 earth drawn around the plants. 



During the past season I have tried a new method, which has afforded me 

 great satisfaction. I first spread a two inch layer of fine soil on the shed floor, 

 which I moisten well with the sprinkler, and then add two inches of flour of bone, 

 also well sprinkled, and then finally one to two inches of unleached wood ashes, 

 which was also well moistened. In this order I formed a heap about three feet 

 high. In about a fortnight this heap had heated sufficiently to dry the moisture, 

 when it was cut down with a hoe, and all the dry lumps knocked up fine. I 

 used a closed handful of the mixture in each cabbage hill before planting. 



In all my experience in growing cabbage, for upwards of thirty years, I never 

 saw more thrifty plants than grew over that manure. The leaves were broad and 

 open, with that healthy green color that delights the farmer's eye, and without 

 that naked stem connection of the leaves with the stem which characterizes 

 feeble plants. The caustic potash of the ashes had so acted on the fine bone 

 as to make it very much more valuable as a fertilizer. Though it was not made 

 soluble, .yet it readily became so when in contact with the soil. — American Cul- 

 tivator. 



