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The Rorists' Review 



Dbcdmbbb 29, 1921 



plowed early in the spring and con- 

 tinually cultivated and disked until the 

 plants are transplanted. A spot is 

 selected for planting, which is raked over 

 until it resembles a mellow garden. The 

 seeds are sown about the middle of 

 May. The plants are usually large 

 enough to set out in the field the first 

 part of July, sixteen inches apart in 

 rows three feet apart. Constant culti- 

 vation is necessary in order to remove 

 all weeds, keeping the land mellow, 

 thus giving the cabbage a rapid growth 

 which insures a healthy condition and 

 helps fight the root maggots. By the 

 middle of October the cabbage has ad- 

 vanced to a stage where small, stunted or 

 off-type cabbage are cut out and only 

 heads that are firm and true to type are 

 kept for seed production. These true 

 heads are put in their permanent places, 

 the rows six feet apart. This is a task 

 of extreme importance and can be done 

 only by those who have given years of 

 study and close application to cabbage 

 seed culture. About the middle of No- 

 vember or at the first sign of freezing 

 weather, the cabbages are covered and 

 remain so until about the first of March. 

 From this time on, the cultivating must 

 be done with consistent regularity, as 

 this is the time the seed is maturing. 

 Just before the plants are in bloom, 

 stakes five feet long are placed in the 

 rows about six feet apart and a heavy 

 twine is strung along both sides of the 

 cabbage and fastened to the stakes 

 about two feet from the ground. This 

 keeps the heavy-laden branches from 

 breaking off or resting on the ground. 

 Before the cabbage is cut, the last part 

 of July, a deep furrow is plowed be- 

 tween the rows and stakes are laid 

 across this furrow. The cabbage is then 

 cut with large knives and piles of a 

 dozen stocks each are placed on top of 

 these stakes. Thus the furrow acts as a 

 ventilator. The seeds are ready to thresh 

 in about two weeks, and are placed by 

 hand in a canvas-covered box, 4x5x12 

 feet, and hauled to the thresher on a 

 sled. 



Machines specially constructed for 

 this threshing are used. The seed comes 

 from the machines fairly clean and is 

 placed in burlap sacks about half full, 

 where it is kept about two weeks, dur- 

 ing which time the sacks are turned 

 every day in order to insure the seed 

 being perfectly cured. Tags are placed 

 both inside and outside the sacks, giving 

 stock number, variety, etc., making a 

 mixture of the different lots a practical 

 impossibility. 



Immune From Diseases. 



It is said that Skagit county has 

 practical immunity from diseases com- 

 mon to the brassica family, such as 

 black leg, black rot, club root .and 

 fusarium wilt, all of which are serious 

 diseases, causing severe losses in other 

 districts where they are common. 

 Fusarium wilt has become destructive 

 in the cabbage-growing sections of the 

 eastern states and bids fair to rank with 

 black rot in importance. It causes 

 yellowing and wilting of the plants. 



A contract has been entered into by 

 the recently incorporated Skagit Valley 

 Seed Growers' Association and the Chas. 

 H. Lilly Co., whereby the company has 

 absolute control for a period of years of 

 all the seed crops grown by the associa- 

 tion, to furnish planting stock and to 

 Bell all the seed grown. All seed crops 

 are subject to the same contract and 

 rigid supervision of the Lilly Co. as they 



SURPLUS BULB OFFER 



We have the following varieties in surplus, and offer sound 

 bulbs, subject to stock being unsold upon receipt of order. 



DAFFODILS . Per 1000 



Golden Spur, French grown $30.00 



Sir Watkin, round bulbs 30.00 



Sir Watlcin, mother bulbs 35.00 



Leedsii Mr». Langtry 25.0O 



Barrii Conspicuus 25.00 



Incomparabilis Lucifer 35.00 



Poeticus Omatus 25.00 



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Splendens, lavender 



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