D, M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 
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 Seed Farms; they 
are all grown under our personal inspection and supervision. There are none more reliable, none that can 
be more implicitly depended upon to give planters uniformly satisfactory results. 
(GULTURE — The requisites for complete success are: 
First, good seed; there is no vegetable where the seed 
has more influence on the quality of the product than in this, 
and gardeners should invariably select the best procurable. 
Second, rich, well prepared ground. Third, frequent and 
thorough cultivation. A heavy, moist and rich loam is most 
suitable, which should be highly manured and worked deep. 
Cabbage is so universally grown all over the country that 
specific directions regarding the time and methods of plant- 
ing for all localities cannot be given. In general, north of the 
40th parallel, the early sorts should be sown very early in 
hot-beds, hardened off by gradually exposing them to night 
air, and as early as the ground is in good condition, trans- 
planted, setting eighteen to thirty-six inches apart, according 
to size of variety. South of the 40th parallel sow from the 
middle of September, or according to latitude, transplant into 
cold frames if necessary to keep through winter, and set 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. Shade and water the late sowings in dry 
weather to get them up. It is important that the plants 
should not be crowded in the seed bed, or they will run up 
weak and slender, and be likely to make long stems. 
One of the most successful eastern market gardeners 
recommends sowing cabbage for family use as follows: At 
the desired time sow the seed in drills, or in hills, thinly, and 
after the plants are of sufficient size thin to the proper dis- 
tance in the row, or to a single plant to the hill, and cultivate 
as usual. This is a very simple method and in some eases is 
very successful. 
Cabbages should be hoed every week, and the ground 
stirred as they advance in growth, drawing up a little earth 
to the plant each time until they begin to head, when they 
should be thoroughly cultivated and left to mature. Loosen- 
ing the roots will sometimes retard the bursting of full 
grown heads. 
Of late years many crops of early cabbage have been 
destroyed by maggots at the roots. The best remedy seems 
to be to remove the earth from around the stem and apply an 
emulsion of kerosene made as follows: Add one quart of 
kerosene oil to two quarts of boiling soft 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. 
Ashes, slacked lime and coal dust are all recommended as 
preventatives. These are scattered about the plants, leaving 
one here and there untreated for the flies to congregate 
around and deposit their eggs upon, when they should be 
pulled up and destroyed. 
The cabbage worms which destroy the leaves and heads 
later, may be killed by dusting with pyrethrum powder. 
If the disease called club root should get a foot-hold, donot 
plant the land with any of the Brassica family for a year or 
two. This is usually an effective remedy. : 
To preserve cabbage during the winter, pull them ona dry 
day,and turn them over on the heads a few hours to drain. 
Set them out in a cool cellar, or bury them, covering with 
boards or straw so as to keep out frost and rain, in long 
trenches, in a dry situation. 
A great many of the varieties of Cabbage are simply strains 
rather than distinct sorts and are practically the same as 
some older and better known kind. We do not think there is 
a single variety offered in this country which we have not 
seen both in trial and in fields, and we are confident that every 
good quality can be found in as high degree in some one on 
the list we offer as in any kind of different name. 
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EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. 
Extra EARLY EXPRESS. 
An extra early sort, in which the 
lants are compact, with round, thick 
teauee. and form an oval head, which 
is astonishingly large for the size of the 
plants. The heads are proportionately 
thicker and less pointed than those of 
the Jersey Wakefield, and it is only 
slightly later than that sort. Pkt. 5c.; 
Oz. 15 cts.; 2 Oz. 25 cts.; 14 Lb. 40 cts.; 
Lb. $1.25. 
VERY EARLY ETATMIPES. 
EARLY YORK. An early variety. Heads small, heart shaped, firm 
and tender; of very erect and dwarf habit, so that they may be 
Pkt. 5 cts.; Oz. 10 cts.; 
grown fifteen or eighteen inches apart. 
2 Oz. 20 cts.; 144 Lb. 30 cts.; Lb. $1.00. 
EARLY LARGE York. Succeeds the Early York. Itis of larger 
size, about ten days later, more robust and bears the heat better. 
Pkt. 5 ets.; Oz. 10 cts.; 2 Oz. 20 cts.; 14 Lb. 30 cts.; Lb. $1.00. 
Very EARLY ETAMPES. 
Similar to the well-known Jersey 
Wakefield. The plants are lighter colored, but not quite so hardy. 
The heads are fully as large, not quite so pointed, and are of excel- 
lent quality. Sold also as ‘Earliest of All,’ ‘‘ Wonderful,” ete. 
Pkt. 5 cts.; Oz. 10 cts.; 2 Oz. 20 cts.; 14 Lb. 30 cts.; Lb. $1.00. 
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EXTRA EARLY CABBAGES. 
Most gardeners depend upon it for the bulk of their extra early crop. Our 
stock is grown and selected with the greatest care and there is none better and 
few as good. Heads conical, very compact and solid, of excellent quality. The 
thick stout leaves and compact habit of this variety make it 
The Best for Wintering Over and Very Early Setting. 
Pkt. 5 ets.; Oz. 20 cts.; 2 Oz. 35 cts.; 
14 Lb. 60 cts.; Lb. $2.00. 
CHARLESTON, OR 
LARGE WAKEFIELD. 
A strain of Jersey Wakefield, 
in which the plant is larger 
and later, the head larger and 
not so pointed. 
It is very popular with many garden- 
ers who want a larger head-than the 
Jersey and are not so particular as to 
earliness. Pkt.5 cts.; Oz. 20 cts.; 2 Oz. 
35 cts.; 14 Lb. 60 cts.; Lb. $2.00. 
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