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CHAPTER XIII. 



CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER AND COLLAEDS. 



As these three vegetables require about the same soil, 

 fertilizer and general culture, I am going to treat them in 

 the same chapter. 



Of the three, cauliflower is the most sensitive to bad 

 treatment, and while it is worked and fertilized the same as 

 the collard and cabbage, it takes more fertilizer, and if given 

 an}' set back it is apt to yield a poor crop ; and a poor crop 

 of cauliflower is as bad as no crop at all. To succeed it 

 should be planted on well prepared land with not less 

 than a ton of fertilizer to the acre. Another point in 

 which it differs from the cabbage is that when it begins to 

 head the leaves should be drawn over the head and fastened 

 with a small wooden pin (toothpicks are excellent for this 

 purpose), so as to protect it from the sun, while the cab- 

 bage head takes all the sun it can get — the more the better. 

 In shipping the cauliflower you should be very careful to 

 pull the leaves well over the heads, as it bruises and rots 

 quickly. Pack in lettuce hampers, as they make a nice size 

 package, which are not apt to tear up in transit. 



The Old Georgia Collard will grow in all parts of Flor- 

 ida any time of the 3rear, with scarcely, if any fertilizer. It 

 does not pay to ship, but is known as the Colored Man's 

 Cabbage, and if tied in bunches, sells well on any of the 

 Florida markets. It also makes excellent greens for chick- 

 ens, and the beauty of the collard is that you don't have 

 to take the plant up to sell it ; all that is necessary is to 

 pull or cut the leaves off and in a few weeks you can come 

 back to the same plant and pull the leaves again. It comes 

 in fine about the middle of the summer, when all other 

 green vegetables are gone. You can hardly find a home of 



