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Pack the dirt well around the roots and water the plants 

 immediately after setting, pouring it at the side of the plant 

 and not on it. The distance to set the plants depends upon 

 the variety of cabbage you are planting, the early and small 

 varieties only requiring about eighteen inches between the 

 plants. The cauliflower and collard are set the same dis- 

 tance as the earl)' cabbage. The other varieties of cabbage 

 require about two feet between the plants. 



Start working the plants as soon as they take root, and 

 do not stop until the heads are about formed. Ship both 

 the cabbage and cauliflower as soon as the heads are fully 

 grown, as you may lose the crop by leaving it in the field 

 after it matures. 



If the crops do not grow fast enough to suit you or start 

 to turn yellow at any stage of their growth, give them an 

 application of nitrate of soda, about 150 or 200 pounds to 

 the acre, drilling it in the rows about six inches from the 

 plant, being careful not to get it on them, as it burns. 



Ship the cabbage in barrels or, better still, barrel cab- 

 bage crates. You can get these from any Florida crate 

 manufacturer. 



The only insect that will be apt to bother these vege- 

 tables is the green cabbage worm or looper, and a solution 

 of arsenate of lead sprayed on the plants will fix them, using 

 about one and a half pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gal- 

 lons of water. 



