What to Grow 



Another favorite sort is the old Marblehead 

 Mammoth, still one of the best in the market. 

 The chief objection to be urged against it is 

 its great size. An ordinar}^ head could not 

 be used in several days in the average family, 

 and cabbage is a vegetable that soon parts 

 with a good deal of its finest flavor after cut- 

 ting. Therefore, for the ordinary family, a 

 smaller kind will be found more satisfactory. 



The housewife who has an eye for the attrac- 

 tions of the table will want a quantity of the 

 purple cabbage to work up in salads and slaws. 

 Its rich color makes it almost as attractive as 

 flowers. 



Set cabbage about two feet apart in the row. 



Early cabbage can be started in the hot- 

 bed, but for a later crop I would advise plant- 

 ing the seed in the open ground. 



If the flea-beetle attacks your cabbage plants 

 when small, dust them, while damp, with 

 tobacco powder, wood ashes, or air-slacked 

 lime. If the aphis comes, use the kerosene 

 em.ulsion spoken of in the chapter on Insecti- 

 cides and Fimgicides. For the worms which 

 sometimes eat the leaves during the latter part 

 of the season, this emulsion is one of the most 



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