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MAINE STATE COLLEGE 



It is the practice of the -writer to handle cabbages, tomatoes and 

 oeher vegetables started under glass, in pots, so far as possible. 

 In this way the plants suffer little or uo check in transplanting, 

 and with some sorts at least, better results are obtained. Plants 

 grown in boxes or flats, are necessarily mutilated each time they 

 are handled. 



To determine the extent of the influence of the different methods 

 of treatment on the development of the cabbage, a portion of the 

 plants were handled in pots and the remainder in flats till ready 

 for the final transfer to the field. The plants handled in pots 

 were removed from the seed-flats to 3-inch pots, and later to 

 4-inch pots. Those handled in boxes were placed about two inches 

 apart at the first transplanting, and about four inches each way 

 at the second. When put out in the field, all were placed in rows 

 three feet apart, and two feet apart in the row. 



Table I shows the results obtained. 



tablji i. 



VARIETIES. 



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"£3 



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3 cc 



CO 





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£ v. 



cpr *> 



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6 



bSi 



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13 



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fc 



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PS 



Remarks. 



Jersey Wakefield. 

 (Thorburn.) 

 Pots 



Boxes 



Jersey Wakefield. 

 (March.) 

 Pots 



Boxes 



Early Etampes. 

 (Thorburn.) 

 Pots 



Boxes 



Brunswick. 



(Thorburn.) 

 Pots 



Boxes 



Stein's Flat Dutch. 

 (Thorburn.) 

 Pots 



Boxes 



3.0 

 2.0 



2.75 

 2.25 



3.1 



4.5 



7.4 

 5.9 



11.9 

 11.7 



1.0 



1.8 



2 



2 





1.38 



.7 



1.3 



2 



1 



4 



1.00 



1.0 



2.0 



2 



5 



2 



1.33 



• 75 



1.5 



1 



2 



2 



1.00 



1.1 



2.4 







4 





1.00 



1.7 



3.8 



3 



1 





158 



3.0 



50 













1.22 



2.1 



4.1 













1.00 



6.4 



8.1 



6 









1.00 



5.5 



9.1 



1 









1.11 



Cut July 28. 



Cut Aug;. 26 



