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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners 
Cultivation. — 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 ten- 
der heads should always be aimed at in 
preference to an undue quantity. Cabbages, 
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 manipulation in the 
past, rather than such as has been recently 
so treated. They will succeed best in well- 
worked and fertilized open or stony soil. 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 down 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 they 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 becomo large enough, will afford 
the late Autumn and Winter supply. For the 
main or Spring crop sow about August Ilth. 
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 enough for 
final planting out. Good Cabbages should be 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. 
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. Our own unequalled stock, grown on our Seed Farms under personal 
supervision. The true and original stock of this fine Cabbage can only be supplied by us. 
Per pkt. 6d. ; per oz. Is. 6d. 
Cabbage. 
DANIELS’ DEFIANCE GIANT EARLY MARROW. 
EVIDENCE 
“ I grew your Defiance Cabbage last year, some of them weighed 
twenty pounds; the best in the village.*’— Mr. F. H. MALKIN, 
Holmerand. 
“It will perhaps interest you to hear I took First Prize at our Show 
yesterday with your Defiance Cabbage.”— Mr. H. PICKTHORN. 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 
“I grew last year a Cabbage. Daniels’ Defiance, that weighed 
19,' lbs. without stalk or leaves ; and another close upon 18 lbs., grown with 
very ordinary cultivation.”— J. H. TURNER, Esq., St. Austell. 
OF QUALITY. 
“I was much pleased with the Cabbages grown from your Seed, 
Daniels’ Defiance, one of them weighed over seventeen pounds."— 
Mr. F. PAGE, Andover. 
“I grew some splendid Cabbages last year from your Defiance 
Cabbage Seed, weigliiug seventeen pounds." Mr. A. G. SELF, 
Clay Cross. 
“ I am very pleased with the Defiance Cabbage grown from your 
Seed last y^ar, I cut some sixteen pounds without stalk or outside leaves.” 
-Mr. F. LEVERIDGE, Tonbridge. 
DANIELS’ LITTLE QUEEN. A finely 
selected stock, dwarf, compact, and early. First-class 
variety, highly recommended ... per pkt. Gd. 1 6 
Ellam's Early Dwarf. A first-class Early 
Cabbage in all respects. Being very compact, they can 
be planted close together, thus growing double the 
quantity of plants on the same space than most kinds. 
A fine early market kind . . . per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
Daniels’ Improved Enfield Market 
per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
Early Dwarf York. Dwarf and compact ... ... 0 6 
Early Large York. Very useful variety ... ... 0 6 
per oz. — s. <1. 
Enfield Market. Excellent main crop variety ... 0 6 
Ewing’s No. 1. A very fine, early, Dwarf Cabbage 
per pkt. 3d. 0 9 
Early Rainham. Excellent ... ... ... 0 6 
Heartwell Early Marrow, a dwarf compact 
variety of excellent quality ... per pkt. 4d. 1 0 
Nonpareil Improved Dwarf. Early variety 
per pkt. 3d. 0 10 
Nonpareil. Large ... ... ... ... 0 6 
Rosette Colewort ... ... ••• ... 0 8 
St. John’s Day. A fine, dwarf, very early variety ... 0 6 
Wheeler’s Imperial. Extra select stock per pkt. 3d. 0 9 
