CABBAGES AND CAULIFLOWERS. 



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sown broadcast and worked in. Experience has 

 proved that it is detrimental to the plants to put 

 on the fertilizer and set them out immediately 

 afterward.* 



On land that is very rich, twelve hundred- weight 

 of fertilizer to the acre will raise a good crop, but 

 generally it needs from fourteen to sixteen hundred- 

 weight of the best grades of special cauliflower 

 fertilizer. Some soils do well where fish-scrap 

 and muriate of potash are used, putting on about 

 fifteen hundred-weight of fish-scrap, and four or 

 five hundred-weight of muriate of potash, to the 

 acre. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



A few days before the time for transplanting, 

 (in this district, Eastern Long Island, 41° north 

 latitude, time for setting out main crop is between 

 the 20th of June and 1st of August), the ground 

 should be harrowed, and then a planker should be 

 put on and the surface smoothed off nicely, so that 

 the marking can be properly done. Mark out 

 crosswise first, three feet apart, then lengthwise, 

 three feet apart for Erfurt and Snowball, and all 

 small growing kinds, and four feet apart for Algiers, 

 and all large varieties ; it does not pay to put them 

 closer. If it does not rain when the time comes 

 for setting, and the ground is not moist enough, it 



* The reason of this is that the moisture of the soil starts the chemical 

 properties of the fertilizer at once into action ; applying it two to three 

 weeks previous to planting allows it to become well composted in the 

 soil. — Ed, 



