Contents xi 



CHAPTER IX 



PAGES 



Marketing 78-80 



The packing-house, 78 — Honest packing, 80. 



CHAPTER X 

 Vesetables with Edible Leaves ok Stems — Cole Ckops 81-98 

 Cabbage, 81 — Seed-bed, 82 — Sowing the seed of 

 cabbage, 82 — Soils for cabbage, 83 — Fertilizers for 

 cabbage, 84 — Preparing cabbage for market, 85 — 

 Marketing cabbage, 85 — Enemies of cabbage, 86 — 

 Varieties of cabbage, 86 — Bulletins, 86 — Brussels 

 sprouts, 87 — Kale or borecole, 87 — Collards, 88 — 

 Cauliflower, 89 — Sowing seed of cauliflower, 90 — 

 Soil and fertilizer for cauliflower, 92 — Setting out the 

 plants, 92 — Cultivation of cauliflower, 93 — Cutting, 93 



— Crating cauliflower heads, 93 — Seed production, 94 



— Varieties of cauliflower, 94 — Enemies, 95 — Books 

 and bulletins, 95 — Broccoli, 95 — Kohlrabi, 97. 



CHAPTER XI 



Vegetables with Edible Leaves ok Stems — Other 



Ckops 99-133 



Lettuce, 99 — Seed-bed for lettuce, 100 — Preparing 

 the lettuce field, 102 — Cultivation of lettuce, 102 — 

 Fertilizer, 102 — Irrigation for lettuce, 103 — Marketing 

 lettuce, 104 — Lettuce seed raising, 104 — Diseases, 105 



— Varieties of lettuce, 105 — Bulletins, 106 — Endive, 

 106 — Spinach, 107 — Celery, 109— Soil for celery, 109 



— Fertilizer for celery. 111 — Seed sowing, 112 — Trans- 

 planting celery, 113 — Irrigation of celery, 116 — Pre- 

 paring celery for market, 118 — Diseases, 118 — Varieties 

 of celery, 119 — Bulletins, 119 — Chicory, 119 — Pars- 

 ley, 121 — Cress, 122 — Garden cress, 123— Upland 

 cress, 123 — Watercress, 123 — Asparagus, 124 — Prep- 



