Daniels Bros., Norwich, Spring, 1892 . 
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Cabbage. 
EVIDENCE OF QUALITY. 
“Please send me a packet of Defiance Cabbage. 
I have had it these four years and cannot find any to equal 
it.”— Mr. S. PALMER, Exeter. 
“Your Defiance Cabbage stood the Winter when 
other sorts failed.”— Mr. T. THOMPSON, Leicester. 
‘ I have grown the best Cabbages I ever had from the 
Defiance and Little Q,ueen 1 had of you last year.”- 
Mr. J. BLIGHT, Torrington. 
“ I have bad some splendid Cabbage this Summer from the 
Seed I had from you. They stood the severe weather 
remarkably well.”- Mr. W. A. FERMOR, Hanietshum. 
DANIELS’ DEFIANCE GIANT EARLY MARROW. A magnificent variety, growing to the weight of 
from ten to twenty pounds. Remarkably early, short-legged, and compact, and of the most delicious marrow flavour. Invaluable for 
the market gardener or the private grower. Per packet 6d., per oz. Is. 8d. 
Cultivation. — In this class of the 
Brassica tribe, Daniels’ Defiance Early 
Marrow stands pre-eminent. This fact is 
testified by the thousands of packets Bold 
during the past Spring and Autumn, and 
further, by the numerous flattering testi- 
monials we continue to receive on all hands 
with respect to its superior qualities. 
Although Cabbages would appear to 
occupy quite a second-rate position among 
the list of comestibles of the vegetable 
garden, Spring Cabbages are nevertheless 
universally appreciated for their tenderness 
and unquestionably delicious flavour. In 
the culture of them, a constant succession 
of quickly grown and hence tender heads 
should always be aimed at in preference to 
an undue quantity, existing as sometimes 
happens at any period of the year. Cab- 
bages, as do all the tribe, delight in a 
deeply-worked, well enriched soil ; one 
however that has been brought into good 
order by constant manuring and manipula- 
tion in the past, rather than such as has 
been recently so treated. This particular 
species of this extensive family will succeed 
most thoroughly in well-worked and ferti lized 
open or stony soil. This in comparison to 
such other kindred subjects as have been 
previously referred to. It is only necessary 
in these regards to study one particular 
in regard to such, viz., if any soil is very 
light, it should have been well enriched, 
and be allowed a month or two to settle 
dow r n subsequently before the crop is planted 
out upon it. By such means we have carried 
the finest possible crops upon very light 
stony soils, by transplanting the Autumn 
sown plants intended for the Spring crop 
upon the previously used Onion bed. This 
be it understood without digging it over 
following the Onion crop ; but in fact only 
hoeing it over deeply, drawing the drill 
rows, and planting the young plants thereon. 
All heavy, stiff, retentive, and damp soils, it were 
needless to remark, must be well worked up for the 
crops, or the}' will not succeed thereon. The first 
sowing in the year should be made about the middle 
of March. These, if transplanted on in patches as 
they become large enough, will afford the late Autumn 
and Winter supply. For the main or Spring crop 
sow about August 11th. These must be transplanted 
on to an open sunny aspect, so soon as large enough 
for the purpose. Sow the seeds upon prepared and 
finely raked soil, and where practicable transplant into 
nursery beds, there to grow the plants on to become 
large onough for final planting out. Good Cabbages 
should he thirty inches apart in the rows. A sowing 
of Rosette Colewort, made about the middle of July 
and during showery weather, will often form very 
excellent and useful stuff for the early Autumn 
months, and prove useful away into the Winter. 
DANIELS' DEFIANCE GIANT EARLY MARROW. 
