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CABBAGE 
For many years cabbage seed has been a leading specialty with us. Our cabbage seeds are all grown from approved stock 
seeds which are largely of our own development on our Oakview Stock Seed Farm; they are all grown under our personal in- 
spection and supervision. We believe there is no seed that is more reliable, nor any that can be more implicitly depended 
upon to give planters uniformly satisfactory results. 
The requisites for complete success with cabbage are: First, good seed. In this crop the quality of the seed used is of the 
greatest importance. No satisfactory results can possibly be obtained when poor seed is planted. Second, rich, well prepared 
ground. A heavy, moist and rich loam is most suitable. Third, frequent and thorough cultivation. The ground should be highly 
manured and worked gee Cabbage is grown all over the country and specific directions regarding the time and methods of 
planting applicable to all localities cannot be given. In general, north of the 40th parallel the early sorts should be sown very 
early in hotbeds, hardened off by gradually exposing them to the night air and transplanted as early as the ground is in good 
condition, setting eighteen to thirty-six inches apart, according to size of variety. South of the 40th parallel sow about the 
middle of September, or later according to latitude, transplanting into cold-frames if necessary to keep through winter and 
setting in open ground as early as possible in the spring. 
The late autumn and winter varieties may be sown 
from the middle to the last of spring and transplanted 
when four to six inches high. If the weather and soil are 
dry the late sowings should be shaded and watered in 
order to hasten germination, but it is important that the 
plants should not be shaded or crowded in the seed-bed, 
or they will run up weak and slender and will not endure 
transplanting well. Cabbages should be hoed every week 
and the ground stirred as they advance in growth, draw- 
ing up a little earth to the plants each time until they 
begin to head, when they should be thoroughly cultivated 
and left to mature. Loosening the roots will sometimes 
retard the bursting of full grown heads. 
Of late years many crops of early cabbages have been 
destroyed by maggots at the roots. An effective remedy 
seems to be to remove the earth carefully from around 
the stem so as to form a funnel-shaped cup and apply 
Zenoleum, Sanax Dip, or some similar preparation, 
diluted at the rate of one part to eighty parts of water. 
Apply one pint toa plant. A well known remedy is to 
apply an emulsion of kerosene which may be made as 
follows: Add one quart of kerosene oil to two quarts of 
boiling fish oil soap (whale oil soap), soft soap or any 
cheap soap which has been thinned to the consistency of 
cream. Stir the oil thoroughly by churning or other 
method until it has united with the soap and forms a 
cream-like substance. Then dilute with five times as - 
much water and apply once a week. A _ preventive Farry Jersey WAKEFIELD 
for maggots is to spray on forcibly a carbolic acid 
emulsion diluted with thirty parts of water, applied the day after the cabbage plants are transplanted, and repeated several times 
at intervals of a-week 
The cabbage worms which destroy the leaves and heads later may be killed by dusting with pyrethrum powder, Slug Shot 
or Paris green. The last two are poisonous and should not be used in large quantities, or late in the season; however, 
should their use be necessary, care should be taken to remove the outside leaves before the heads are used. If the disease 
called club-root should get a foothold, do not plant the land with any of the cabbage family for a year ortwo. This is usually 
an effective remedy. 
A great many of the varieties of cabbages are simply strains rather than distinct sorts and are really the same as some 
older and better known kinds. We are confident that every good quality can be found in a greater degree in the varieties we 
offer than in any other kinds. 
FIRST EARLY SORTS 
° This most excellent variety is the earliest and surest heading of first early cabbages for the 
Early Jersey Wakefield market and home garden. Most gardeners depend upon it for the bulk of their Sh early 
crop. The plants are exceedingly hardy, not only in resisting cold but other unfavorable conditions. They are compact and 
erect or very slightly spreading, with few outer leaves, which are smooth, thick, nearly oval and deep green. The stem is short. 
ae agads ae os medium size, very solid, uniformly pointed and of excellent quality. Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; 2 Oz. 60c; %4 Lb. 
The earliest large round-headed cabbage yet introduced. Th e. re excepti 
Copenhagen Market large for so early a variety, very solid aie of most ACG Soe The Apaee a 
vigorous but compact, with short stem and few 
outer leaves which are of rather upright growth. 
The leaves are medium light green, nearly 
round, comparatively thick and smooth. This 
is a most excellent sort. both for the home gar- 
den and market gardening trade. Our strain 
produces the characteristic large, round heads 
that for solidity and excellent quality make 
this variety so valuable. (See illustration and 
further description, page 5)-Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; 
2 Oz. 85c; %4 Lb. $1.40; Lb. $5.00 
Charleston or Large Wakefield 
A strain in which the plant is larger and alittle 
later than Early Jersey Wakefield, the head 
being fully as solid but less pointed and con- 
siderably larger. The leaves are rather large, 
smooth and comparatively thick. Its exceeding 
hardiness, earliness and size of head have made 
it with market gardeners and shippers a popular 
sort to follow Jersey Wakefield. The plants are 
medium sized, very vigorous and _ slightly 
spreading. The heads are blunt pointed but 
very broad at the base. Our stock can be de- 
pended upon to produce uniformly fine, mar- 
- : : ketable heads. Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; 2 Oz. 55c; 
CHARLESTON oR LarGeE WAKEFIELD 4 Lb. 90c; Lb. $3.00 
