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Many visitors will recollect the specimens of Cabbage, Beets, Celery, Cauliflower, Lettuce, 

 Cucumbers, etc., they saw there displayed. . He received a prize for "Frotscher's Flat Dutch 

 Cabbage" and Early Blood Turnip Beets. Ten heads of Cabbage, devoid of all outside leaves, 

 weighed one hundred and seventy-three pounds. They were raised on Captain Marcy's place, 

 one mile below Algiers. They were not exhibited for competition, but merely to show our 

 Northern visitors what fine vegetables we have here during the winter, when at their homes 

 everything is covered with snow and ice. The Committee of Awards on Vegetables gave the 

 Prize without any solicitation on his part — they thinking it well merited. 



These three heads of Cabbage were grown by M. Popovich, at Tunisburg^ La. 



CULTURE — Cabbage requires a strong, good soil, and should be heavily manured. To 

 Taise large Cabbage without good soil and without working the plants well is an impossibility. 

 Cabbage is sown here almost every month of the year, but the seed for the main crop should 

 be sown from July to September. Some sow earlier, but July is time enough. For a succes- 

 sion, seed can be sown till November. The main crop for spring should be sown from end of 

 October to end of November, as stated before. The raising of Cabbage for spring has become 

 quite an item of late years; Brunswick should be sown a little earlier than the Early Summer; 

 the latter kind not till November, but in a frame, so the young plants can be protected against 

 cold 'weather, which we generally have between December and January. After the middle of 

 January setting out can be commenced with. These early varieties of Cabbage require special 

 fertilizing to have them large. Early varieties are sown during the winter and early spring. 

 Cabbage is a very important crop, and one of the best paying for the market gardener. It 

 requires more work and attention than most people are willing to give to raise cabbage plants 

 during the months of July and August. We have found, by careful observation, that plants 

 raised in August are the surest to head here. The most successful gardeners in raising cab- 

 bage plants sow the seeds thinly in seed beds, and water several times during the day; in fact 

 the seed bed is never allowed to get dry from the sowing of the seed till large enough to trans- 

 plant. There is no danger in doing this of scalding the plants, as many would suppose; but 

 on the contrary the plants thrive well, and so treated will be less liable to be attacked by cab- 

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