SEED-TIME AfiD HARVEST. 
the largest size, early, very productive, and 
of a delicious flavor. Being of a strong and 
healthy habit, it is well adapted to almost 
every variety of soil, and whether as a mar¬ 
ket or family berry will most likely become 
a standard sort. 
Cabbage Plants Wintered Over. 
Very fine Cabbage heads were grown but 
twenty-five miles south of La Plume, and 
put in market on July 20th. Of course this 
could not be done in any other way than 
by sowing seeds in September and winter¬ 
ing over the plants in cold-frames. Such 
plants can be set in the field in April, and 
will go into market about a month ahead 
of the best spring-grown hot-bed plants. If 
managed rightly there is very little trouble, 
risk, or expense in successfully wintering 
cabbage plants, and yet they are always in 
good demand at from Five to Seven Dollars 
per 1000, and the market is never over¬ 
stocked. At least we never yet had enough 
to supply the demand at any price. Some 
good, large heading, early variety should 
be selected for this purpose. The Jersey 
Wakefield, Early Summer, Fottler and 
Bleichfield are all well adapted to this use. 
The latter is coming into favor rapidly 
with those who know its merits. It is one 
of the strongest and most rapid growing 
varieties in existence, and very sure to pro¬ 
duce fine heads. 
We think more failures are made in win¬ 
tering cabbage plants by sowing too late, 
and thus going into winter quarters with 
too young and tender plants, than from 
any other cause. The proper time to sow 
is just at the season of sowing fall or win¬ 
ter wheat, or, say eight weeks before you 
expect the ground to freeze up for winter. 
With us this is from first to tenth of Sep¬ 
tember. Let them stand in seed-bed until 
the stems get hard and tough, then trans¬ 
plant into cold-frames, setting each plant 
as deep as you can and not cover the bud. 
This will prevent them from injury by 
freezing. Bank up well around the beds 
with stable litter, and as soon as there is 
danger of a hard freeze, cover the beds 
with sashes. These are to be kept on dur¬ 
ing cold, dark or freezing weather and lift¬ 
ed during mild intervals to give them air. 
Soft, sappy, late sown plants are hard to 
winter, also those which have not been 
transplanted, as the excessive freezing 
splits the stems and kills them. 
All our friends who have a plant trade 
started, and those who wish to get into mar¬ 
ket early, should try wintering over some 
plants. If you lack sashes to cover your 
beds, make a lot of wooden shutters, same 
size of your sashes, and alternate them. 
Light enough will get in if every other one 
is dark. A cabbage plant is hardy or tender 
according as it has been treated. Seed sown 
out of doors in March or April will germin¬ 
ate slowly between frosts and when up, the 
ground may be frozen to a depth of one or 
two inches without the slightest injury to 
plant. But if the same seed be sown under 
glass, or in the open ground in hot weather, 
the plant will spring up and grow quickly 
and a late frost will kill it nearly as quickly 
as it will a tomato plant. We never yet 
have seen a plant injured by frost which 
was sown out as early as the ground could 
be worked. The same principle applies to 
wintering over plants, If they are properly 
hardened before severe winter weather sets 
in, they will stand zero temperature, but if 
too young and tender, or allowed to grow 
under glass before cold weather, they are 
killed by the first hard freeze. Use a little 
judgment on these points and you can suc¬ 
cessfully winter them anywhere, and make 
money by so doing. 
