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GARDEN STEPS 



Spring and Summer Cabbage. — Several varieties 

 of early cabbage have proved good for the hoine 

 garden. The Jersey Wakefield has a long, suc- 

 cessful record in all parts of the country, and it is 

 recommended everywhere. It has a rather small, 

 solid, pointed head. The quality is excellent. 



The Copenhagen Market, introduced from the 

 Danish peninsula, is now also receiving much at- 

 tention. It is early, 

 and develops hard, 

 round heads of good 

 quality. It is rather 

 large for the average 

 family, some heads 

 weighing tenpounds, 

 and the flesh is per- 

 haps not quite so 

 sweet and delicate 

 as the JVakefield. 



One fault of both 

 these is that, if they 

 are left in the garden, the heads will split soon after 

 they are ripe. This is unsatisfactory in the home 

 garden ; for one wants to have cabbages now and 

 then, not all at once, and they cannot be pulled and 

 stored long during the warm weather. This difficulty 

 has been well understood by speciahsts, and a new 

 cabbage, Mainstay-Early , appeared four or five years 

 ago, which so far has stood the test of time very well 



Copenhagen Market Cabbage 



