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HINTS ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE CABBAGE 
AND CAULIFLOWER. 
Description. — A vegetable grown for its heart and leaves. 
Varieties. — Shape and colour, with size, and variations in the time required to reach 
maturity, are the chief distinctive features. 
Soil. — S trong and well dug. 
Seasons for Sowing. —February to April ; August and September. 
How to Sow. — Sow the seeds thinly in rows 6 inches apart in prepared beds. If early, 
the beds should be in a sheltered situation. 
Transplanting. — Small varieties are set out 15 inches apart, larger types 24 inches apart, 
either between potatoes and other low growing crops, or alone, say after the potatoes are off, to 
stand according to sort from 1 5 to 30 inches apart. 
In Season. — Spring Cabbage ready about May is produced from seeds sown in August 
and September. Summer Cabbage is produced from seeds sown in February and March. 
Autumn Cabbage from seeds sown in April and May. Under a good system of culture, this 
vegetable can be had all the year through. 
Enemies. — “ Clubbing ” is perhaps the worst disease. It is caused by an insect which 
breeds and thrives in unhealthy over-fed soil, and produces a quantity of knob-like excrescences 
on the roots. The caterpillars of the white cabbage butterfly and cabbage moth are 
also very destructive, often completely perforating the leaves in summer and early autumn. 
Description. — A vegetable producing heads of bloom which in an immature 
state are edible when cooked. Although similar in character to the Broccoli, it matures 
more quickly, and is much more tender, and comes into season under ordinary culture 
from July to November. In large establishments it is grown in pots under glass, and 
brought into flower at whatever season it is most required. 
Soil. — Rich and well dug. 
Varieties. — Carters’ Defiance represents a small but very early heading variety, 
whilst Carters’ Early Autumn Giant has enormous heads. 
How to Sow, and Season when in Cut. — If small heads are desired in summer the 
seed of Carters’ Defiance should be sown in a pan in heat during February, and transplanted 
into frames in April to form compact heads during summer. The larger varieties, sown in 
March in a frame or sheltered border, and transplanted in summer, will come into cut in 
early autumn. 
Transplanting. — See Broccoli. 
Enemies. — See Cabbage. 
CABBAGE. 
French — Chou Pomme. German — Kopf Kohl. Dutch — Kool. Italian— Cavolo. 
Spanish — Colrepollo. 
CAULIFLOWER. 
French — Chou-fleur. German — Blumen Kohl. Dutch — Bi.oem Kool. 
Italian — Cavol Fiore. Spanish — Coi.ifi.or. 
237. *38, & 97, Hip.h Holborn, London. — 1904 
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