CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
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CABBAGE. 
The cabbage is one of the most important vegetables, and, in some 
of its varieties, universally cultivated. The ground must be highly 
manured, deeply dug or plowed, and thoroughly worked, to insure 
good, full-sized heads. A heavy, moist and fresh loam is the most 
suitable. The early sorts are sometimes sown early in autumn and 
protected in cold frames through the winter, and transplanted early 
in spring; but more generally at the North they are sown very early 
in the spring, in hot-beds, or later in the open ground. Eighteen 
inches by two feet apart is the common distance. 
The late autumn and winter varieties may be sown in a seed-bed, 
from the middle to the end of spring, and transplanted when about 
six inches high, to twenty-eight inches apart each way. Shade and 
water the late sowings in dry weather, to get them up. It is impor- 
tant .that the plants should stand thinly in the seed-bed, or they will 
run up weak and slender, and be likely to make long stumps. If 
they come up too thick pick them out into beds four or six inches 
apart, which will cause them to grow low and stocky. Treated in 
this manner, the plants will form lateral roots ; and they can be re- 
moved with the earth attached, in a moist day, without checking 
their growth. 
Cabbages should be hoed every week, and the ground stirred deep- 
er, as they advance in growth, drawing up a little earth to the plants 
each time, until they begin to head. 
Per pkt. Oz. 
Early "Wyman.- One of the best and most profitable Early Market 
Cabbages that grow. 10c. 60c. 
Jersey Wakefield.— The best of the early varieties 10c. 50c. 
Fottler's Improved Brunswick.— This is without exception, 
the best Early Drumhead variety in the market, and is almost uni- 
versally used by the Boston market gardeners to succeed the Early 
Wyman, also for a late crop. Every plant produces a good, firm 
and solid head, often weighing from twenty to thirty pounds. The 
quality is excellent 10c. 60c. 
Early York.— A well-known favorite variety 5c. 20c. 
Early Winniiigstadt.— An excellent sort; heads of large size.... 5c. 30c. 
Large Late Drumhead.— Grows to a large size, with round, com- 
pact Heads 5c. 20c. 
Premium Flat Dutch.— A popular and much esteemed variety. 5c. 30c. 
Stone Mason.— An improved variety of the Mason Drumhead, of 
sweet and tender quality , 5c. 40c. 
Stone Mason Improved.— Very fine 10c. 50c. 
Mar blehead Mammoth.— Thelargest of all Cabbage ; heads have 
been grown weighing sixty pounds 10c. 50c. 
Red Dutch.— Used almost exclusively for pickling 5c. 30c. 
