CABBAGES AND CAULIFLOWERS. 



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sumption, cabbages may be grown, even if not 

 to the highest perfection, in most kinds of soil, 

 especially if green manured and supplied with 

 superphosphate of lime, guano, ashes, etc., accord- 

 ing to the character of the soil. If this be loose 

 and light, a partial remedy may be found in a 

 compacting and keeping moist of the soil around 

 the plants. Mulching with coarse manure, sea 

 weed or the like will also have a good effect on 

 unretentive soils. The more removed the char- 

 acter of the soil is from the cabbage soil par 

 excellence, as described above, the more important 

 it is that only the surest heading varieties of 

 cabbage be grown. 



THE CABBAGE PLAXT IS A GREEDY FEEDER, 



And there has hardly ever been a case in which 

 a crop has been spoiled by too heavy manuring. 

 The early crops, especially, require very great 

 quantities of manure in order that they may be 

 hurried through to perfection and maturity in 

 the shortest possible time, so as to give room for 

 second crops of such kinds as the locality and 

 market render most lucrative or private wants 

 may call for. Seventy or eighty large two-horse 

 loads of good rich stable manure to the acre is 

 none too much for early cabbages, if no artificial 

 manure be applied. The late varieties, when they 

 follow after richly-manured first crops, do not 

 require such heavy special manuring, as they 

 have a longer time in which to grow and search 



