CABBAGES. 



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planted into other beds in March. They will be 

 large enough to set ont in the garden in April. 



More explicit directions will be found on this 

 subject in the chapter on " Hot-beds." 



Market-gardeners prefer cold frame plants for 

 their main crop of early Cabbages. As early in 

 April as the ground is in condition to be worked, 

 the yard-manure is hauled on 

 the field, using from sixty to 

 seventy-five two-horse loads to 

 the acre. This is spread broad- 

 cast, and ploughed under. The 

 surface is then levelled by turn- 

 ing a harrow upside down and 

 dragging it over the ground, so 

 as not to displace the manure. 

 The space is then marked out, 

 the rows two feet apart. The 

 plants are then set in the rows, 

 eighteen inches apart, with the 

 ordinary dibble. This can be 

 done very rapidly by persons 

 familiar with the work. A smart 

 workman will transplant seven 

 thousand in ten hours. Lettuce 

 may then be planted between 

 the rows of Cabbages, one foot 

 apart in the rows. With this 

 method all the work of cultivation has to be done 

 with hand-hoes ; and with Cabbage, as with ail 

 garden-crops, clean culture must be the ride. 



Farther south, where land is cheaper — as, for 



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