30 THE SEED-GROWER. 
second method gives the best results and is otherwise 
satisfactory. This is the method pursued by the lead- 
ing commercial seed-growers; the economical advan- 
tage of it being later sowing, and such plants winter 
better than do solid heads; while the older and more 
experienced growers contend that there is a bigger scope 
for selection of plants for stock-seed in a large field of 
partial heads, than there is in a small field of solid ones. 
Sowing of seed for this crop is to be timed so that the 
plants will be just coming to a partial heading stage 
when it will be necessary either to take them up for 
winter storage or to cover them up in the field in such 
climates where they can safely remain in the field over 
winter. : 
On Long Island, New York, this sowing is done for 
Early Jersey Wakefield about July 5th; for Early Flat 
Dutch and such varieties about June 20th; for Late 
Flat Dutch and other late varieties, about June 5th, 
transplanting early varieties from August 15th to August 
30th; late sorts, from July 15th to July 81st. In this 
locality, cabbage seed is usually harvested during the 
last week in July of the following year. 
Along the Puget Sound in Washington, sowing is 
done of early varieties about June 20th; late kinds 
about May 20th; transplanting of the former to the field 
is done about July 25th; the latter about July 5th. 
Medium early varieties are sown about ten days later 
than the late sorts. : 
Sowing is first made in seed-bed, in rows ten inches 
apart, and when plants are of sufficient size, they are 
transferred to rows two feet apart, sixteen inches in the 
row; about November 10th (on Long Island) they are 
taken up for winter storage. 
In Washington the plants are transplanted from seed 
