GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
Cabbage. 
For early crop, start seed indoors in February or 
March and transplant, when four leaves appear, to 
another seed box until you can plant in open 
ground in May. For later crop sow seeds in rows 
in open ground during April and May, and trans- 
plant during July and August, to 20 in. apart, in 
rows 3 ft. apart. Cultivate often, to keep moisture 
in the soil. Prepare to fight pests, early and late. 
After the seventy or more remedies suggested by 
one authority, for maggots alone, the amateur 
might feel like abandoning cabbage, but at the price 
this moment of $160.00 a ton, wholesale, in New 
York City, a person with even a handkerchief bed 
feels like attempting this luxury. 
Carrots. 
Hardy and easily grown, they can be sown in 
rows that are 12 in. apart, and thinned out to 3 in. 
apart in the row. They can be started as early as 
April, and sown for succession up to the middle of 
July. Cultivate often. 
Cauliflower. 
Treat like cabbage, except that you must start as 
early as possible, to get ahead of the hot weather, 
and give the plants plenty of water. When the 
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