32 RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
CABBAGE. 
CHovu PomMME (Fr.), KoPpFKoHL (Ger.), REPOLLO (Sp.). 
Early York. Improved Early Summer. 
Early Large York. Improved Large Late Drumhead. 
Early Sugar Loaf. | Frotscher’s Superior Late Flat Dutch. 
Early Large Oxheart. | Red Dutch (for pickling). 
Early Winningstadt. Green Globe Savoy. 
Jersey Wakefield. Early Dwarf Savoy. 
Early Flat Dutch. Drumhead Savoy. 
Early Drumhead. | St. Denis or Chou Bonneuil. 
Large Flat Brunswick. Excelsior. 
During the past ‘‘World’s Exposition’’ I exhibited different vegetables as they 
were in season. Many visitors will recollect the fine specimens of Cabbage, Beets, 
Celery, Cauliflower, Lettuce, Cucumbers, etc., they saw there displayed. I received 
the Prize for “Frotscher’s Flat Dutch Cabbage” and Early Blood Turnip 
Beets. Ten heads of Cabbage, devoid of all outside leaves, weighed one hundred 
and seventy-three pounds. They were raised on Captain Marcy’s place, one mile 
below Algiers.—I did not exhibit them for competition, but merely to show to our 
Northern visitors what fine vegetables we have here during the winter, when at 
their homes everything is covered with snow and ice. The Committee of Awards 
on Vegetables gave me the Prize without any solicitation on my part,—they think- 
ing it well merited. (See inside cover.) 
CUE TU Riise 
Cabbage requires a strong, good soil, and should be heavily manured. To raise 
large Cabbage without good soil and without working the piants well, is an im- 
possibility. Cabbage is sown here almost in every month of the year, but the seed 
for a main crop should be sown from July toSeptember. Some sow eartlier, but 
July istime enough. For a suecession, 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 or the Excelsior, 
—the two latter kinds 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 impor- 
tant 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. I have 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-fiies, 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. 
