78 CABBAGES. 



Eaelt Toek. — This popular variety, better known 

 and more generally cultivated than any other early 

 Cabbage, has a small, compact head. Its earliness 

 and delicate flavor have always made it a desirable 

 sort for the kitchen-garden, but it is too small to be 

 grown now by market-gardeners for profit. 



Early Flat Dutch comes into market just at the 

 close of the season of the early varieties, and usually 

 sells for high prices. Our crop of this kind last year 

 sold from twelve to fourteen dollars per hundi-ed, 

 with a brisk demand. The early Flat Dutch requires 

 more room than the other varieties — at least two 

 feet apart each way. We usually get about seven to 

 eight thousand marketable heads from an acre. 



Eaely Winnigstadt. — This kind is not as early 

 on our farm as the early Flat Dutch, when planted 

 on the same ground. Owing to its lateness in head- 

 ing, it is not much grown for market by those who 

 have cultivated the earlier sorts. But if a succes- 

 sion of varieties is wanted, it will serve to fill up a 

 gap. It is of good quality, and boils tender. 



Late Cabbages are grown in many localities on 

 a very extensive scale, and the demand for large, 

 solid heads is generally good, with prices high 

 enough to leave a handsome margin for profit, when 

 the expenses are deducted. 



For the past ten years we have grown on our 

 farm, near Newaric, N. J., from se-^-euty-five to one 

 hundred and fifty thousand Fall Cabbages amiually, 

 and we find less trouble iioav in sellina: one hundred 

 rnousaud heads than we did twenty years ago in dis- 

 posmg of one-fifth of that number. With a single 



