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CABBAGE. 



reported to have been grown, and exhibited, cannot 

 always be produced from the same kind of seed. 

 Because there are occasional instances of such mon- 

 strous heads, it does not prove them to be the result 

 of the putting out the plants of a given variety. They 

 are due rather to natural conditions favorable _for 

 growth, and to the fact that every possible care and 



Fig. 5 — Market Gardener's Private Stock. 



attention has been paid to cultivation. Enormous 

 growths cannot be expected in other than deep, 

 strong soil, rich in every element essential to this 

 particular growth. 



The amateur gardener is often disappointed, 

 and feels himself injured when he buys seeds and 

 plants for an enormous growth and gets below the 



