CABBAGES AND CAULIFLOWERS. 



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Pack very compactly and snugly, using only neat, 

 clean packing material — a good appearance is of 

 the greatest importance, if you wish to secure an 

 extra good price.* Label or mark carefully, and 

 if you employ a commission merchant, advise him 

 fully by a preceding mail of what you send and 

 by what train or boat it is shipped ; a duplicate 

 being kept to guard against accidental loss, and 

 for reference when settlements are made. 



LATE CABBAGES 



Require the same conditions of soil, etc., as the 

 early varieties. Having more time for their 

 development, however, late cabbages do not 

 require such heavy manuring as the early crop. 

 If grown as a second crop after early potatoes, 

 lettuce, peas, beets, radishes, spinach, etc., the 

 heavy manuring that these crops will have 

 received to bring them quickly forward will gen- 

 erally suffice also for the late cabbage crop. But 

 the late as well as the early varieties of cabbage 

 will pay well for extra heavy manuring, which at 

 the same time will leave the ground in most 

 excellent condition for following crops. A good 

 dressing of unleached wood ashes has a striking 

 effect on cabbages, both early and late, and beside 

 stimulating growth will destroy a great many 



* The directions for packing as here given are unnecessarily elabo- 

 rate, the custom in this country being to pack the heads tightly in 

 barrels, no packing being used, as the spaces between the heads pro- 

 mote a free circulation of air. — En. 



