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CULTURE. 
Cabbage requires a strong, good soil, and should be heavily manured. ‘To raise large Cab- 
bage without good soil and without working the plants well, is an impossibility. Cabbage is 
sown here almost every month of the year, but the seed for the main crop should be sown from 
July to September. Some sow earlier, but July is time enough. For a succession, seed can be 
sown till November. ‘The main crop for Spring should be sown from end of October to end of 
November, as stated before. The raising of Cabbage for spring has become quite an item of late 
years; brunswick should be sown a little earlier than the Early Summer, —the latter kind not till 
November, but in a frame, so the young plants can be protected against cold weather, which we 
generally have between December and January. After the middle of January setting out can be 
commenced with. These early varieties of Cabbage require special fertilizing to have them large. 
Early varieties are sown during winter and early spring. Cabbage is a very important crop, and 
one of the best paying for the market gardener. It requires more work and attention than 
most people are willing to give, to raise cabbage plants during the months of July and August. 
Ihave found, by careful observation, that plants raised in August are the surest to head here. 
The most successful gardeners in raising cabbage plants sow the seeds thinly in seed beds, and 
water several times during the day; in fact the seed-bed is never allowed to get dry from the 
sowing of the seed till large enough to transplant. There is no danger, in doing this, of scalding 
the plants, as many would suppose; but on the contrary, the plants thrive well, and so treated, 
will be less liable to be attacked by the cabbage flies, as they are too often disturbed during the 
day. Tobacco stems chopped up and scattered between the plants and in the walks between 
the beds, are a preventative against the fly. 
Drumhead Savoy. Large York. 
