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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. 



CABBAGE 



Ger. Kopf-Kohl. Ft. Clxou Pomme. 

 One oz. will produce 2,000 plants, and sow about 40 square feet. 



For Cabbages, the ground must be highly manured, deeply dug or plowed, and thoroughly 

 worked, to insure good, full sized heads. It these requirements are met and good seed obtained, 

 there is no diflSculty in obtaining fine solid heads. 



The varieties are numerous, embracing kinds especially adapted for summer, fall and winter use. 

 Our assortment includes the leading and most desirable varieties. For early use, sow seeds of the 

 early kinds in hot-bed or box in the house, in February; transplant when the weather will permit. 

 For winter, sow seeds of the winter sorts the middle of May. If early varieties are desired for win- 

 ter use, sow seed about the first of June. Transplanting should be done on a moist day; If the 

 weather is hot and dry the roots of the plants may be dipped in a puddle of loam and water and 

 transplanted just at evening, giving each plant a pint of water at the root. The early varieties 

 are planted eighteen inches by two feet apart; and the late varieties are transplanted, when about 

 six inches high, at a distance of three feet between the rows, and two feet between the plants. In 

 transplanting they must be set In the ground up to the first leaf, no matter how long the stem may 

 be. It is therefore important that the plants should stand thinly in the seed-bed. or they will run 

 up weak and slender, and be likely to malce long stumps. Shade and water the late sowing in dry 

 weather, to get them up. If the small plants are pestered with the Cabbage flea, a small Mack beetle, 

 sow soot or ashes over the plants while wet with dew. We can recommend the " Persian Insect 

 Powder," and the "Slug Shot," as the best remedies against the Cabbage Flea, and Green Worm. 



To preserve Cabbages during the winter, pull them on a dry day, and turn them over on the 

 heads a few hours to drain. For early winter use, store a few in a cool cellar. The main crop will 

 be better kept out of doors, set in a trench closely, head down and covered with straw and earth. 



COLE'S RELIABLE CABBAGE SEED. We can honestly recommend our Cabbage Seed, it is all 

 carefully grown from selected heads of the very best strains. It is sure to head under circumstances 

 where any Cabbage will head. Market gardeners are very cautious of whom they procure their 

 Cabbage Seed, but our trade increases largely among them every year. 



A treatise, entitled " Cabbage," and how to grow them, by mail prepaid for 30 cents. 



HENDERSON'S SUCCESSION. See Novelties. 

 HARD-HEADING. See Novelties. 

 VANDERGAW. See Novelties. 



EXTRA EARLY EXPRESS CABBAGE. 



EXTRA EARLY EXPRESS. This new variety is 

 a few days ahead of any other early variety 

 grown. It has grown a head fit for the market 

 in 80 days from sowing of the seed. Has few 

 outside loose leaves, and almost every plant 

 forms a fine head, and can bo planted close 

 together. In quality it is tender and of rich 

 fiavor; 1 ry it. Per pkt., 5 cts., oz., 25 cts., H. 

 lb., 7-)Cls.,lb.,?2.75. 



"NEWARK" EARLY FLAT DUTCH. This 

 valuable variety has long been a favorite 

 second early .sort with market gardeners. 

 Heads large, solid, roundish, or nearly fiat; 

 very tender, fine grained, and of excellent 

 flavor. As well as being excellent far m:irk(!t 

 In summer. Is admiral)ly adapted for fall and 

 winter use. Per pkt., 4 cts., oz., 20 cts., lb.. 

 GO cts., lb., !f 2. . '* . 



EARLY WINNINGSTADT. One of the best in 

 cultivation for general use. It comes both 

 early and late. Is remarkably solid and hard, 

 oven in summer, and keeps well in hot or cold 

 weather. The heads are regularly conical, ex- 

 ceedingly full, and of excellent quality. Per 

 pkt., 4 cts., oz., 20 cts., ^4 lb., CO cts., lb., 82. 



EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD. 



EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD. Many experi- 

 enced market gardeners consider this the very 

 best Finst Early Cabbage." It is certainly 

 deserving of its great popularity, and is 

 grown for market more extensively than any 

 other early cabbage. It has been our aim to 

 have the very finest strain of so important a 

 variety, and wo can recommend our seed as 

 sure to give satisfaction. It heads up remark- 

 ably hard and solid; having fewoutside leaves 

 the plants can be set close together. The 

 heads are of excellent quality and of large 



ny''o,?VJ' wV^^r'^ ?^^'?,^se. Per pkt., 5 cts.. 

 oz., 20 cts., li lb.. Go cts., lb., $2.25. 



ALL SEASONS. A new Drumhead Cabbage, 

 nearly as early and as good as Early Summer 

 but yielding heads from a third to half as 

 large again. An excellent variety, either for 

 extreme early or fall use; hence its name "AH 

 ff^.^l^.",?- . ^" nuality no cabbage can surpass 

 nf' nnl}''. \1 •'^^^ct'iess. tenderness and richness 

 ?LV^^^ y^^'y superior, ranking equal to 



