HOW TO GROW 



Cabbages axd Cauliflowers 



MOST PROFITABLY. 



BY J. PEDEKSEN (BJERGAARD). 



With an Appendix upon the Cooking of these Vegetables, furnished "by 

 Mr. S. J. Soyer, Chief Cook to His Majesty the King of Denmark. 



Of the plants that from time immemorial have 

 been objects of human husbandry, and cherished 

 articles of food for rich and poor, the cabbage 

 plant is one of the oldest we know of. For at 

 least two thousand years it has been one of the 

 most prominent garden crops. The Jews and the 

 Egyptians cultivated it, and it is interwoven with 

 the myths of the Greeks. One version claimed 

 that the cabbage plant sprang up from the sweat 

 of Jupiter when once upon a time His Divine Ma- 

 jesty was called upon to divine the meaning of 

 two contradictory answers by an oracle ; another, 

 that Bacchus whipped Lykurgus with a grape 



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