How to Raise Good Cabbaue. 
Why is it that so many people complain 
of being able to raise nothing but leaves, 
when they had a right to expect fine and 
large heads? The true answer is, “What¬ 
soever a man sows, that shall he also reap.’’ 
It he sows the wind, he will reap the whirl¬ 
wind. If he plants the seed of leaves, his 
cabbage will amount to nothing but leaves. 
If he raises cabbage from the finest and 
largest seeds to be found on the central 
stems that grow from perfectly developed 
cabbage-heads, instead of the stumps, after 
the heads have been taken off, he can 
scarcely fail to produce a large head from 
every plant. When the cultivation is good 
and the plants yield nothing but leaves, the 
failure of a crop can be attributed directly 
to worthless seed. Raising seeds for mar¬ 
ket has become such a gigantic industry, 
and the prices for cabbage-heads during the 
Winter and Spring are so exorbitant that 
seed-growers are tempted to sell their cab¬ 
bage heads and raise seed to sell from the 
stumps. The result of such a practice is a 
long step of degeneracy towards the origi¬ 
nal wild plant. When one desires to pro¬ 
duce cabbage seed of the choicest quality, 
he does not cut off the heads and sell; them 
and then set out the stumps to produce seed. 
He sets out the most perfect cabbages that 
have been kept over winter from freezing. 
Then he cuts a gash down through the 
head to the stump, so that seed stalks will 
shoot up from the center of the plant. Those 
central stems will yield seed of the most 
reliable quality. Every kernel will produce 
a plump, solid head of excellent cabbage, 
instead of a huge cluster of leaves. As I 
had been accustomed to raise my cabbage 
from such seed as I met with in the stores, 
and as my crops were very unsatisfactory, 
I resolved to try some of the products of 
Puget Sound, Washington Territory. A 
brother of I. F. Tillinghast, La Plume, Pa., 
went to Puget Sound, where land is very 
rich and cheap, and engaged in a seed-pro¬ 
ducing enterprise. As cabbage heads there 
were scarcely worth raising, the finest and 
largest heads were selected for raising seed, 
which is transported to Pennsylvania, 
vrhere seeds and plants are sold by th 
brother at Plume. As my cabbage 
plants formerly had yielded more leaves 
than heads, in 1877 I procured by express 
a few hundred plants, every one of which 
produced a plump and solid head. For sev¬ 
eral seasons past I have purchased cabbage 
plants near home, or raised them myself. 
But with the best care and cnltivation, our 
cabbage crop was almost a failure. The 
plants would grow luxuriantly, and develop 
huge heads of nothing but leaves. In the 
season of 1884 I procured again from La 
Plume a few hundred plants by express, 
(only thirty cents), every one of which was 
strong and stocky, and produced a firm and 
large head. The failures in attempting to 
raise good cabbage from such seed and 
plants as were sold in the markets round 
about New ’York city, and the success that 
crowned all efforts when seed from Puget 
Sound was used, satisfied me that if one 
does not care to cultivate more than one or 
two hundred heads, it will pay better to in¬ 
cur a few dimes for expressage on a basket 
of plants that will yield firm and large 
heads, than to accept as a gift other plants, 
most of which will yield nothing but leaves. 
If one has conveniences for raising his own 
plants, and if he understands how to pro¬ 
duce short, strong, and stocky plants in¬ 
stead of long, slender, and weak ones, he 
may procure the seed. But when one needs 
only a few hundred, my own experience 
dictates the propriety of procuring such 
plants as will be worth cultivating.—A. E. 
L odd, in N. Y. Evangelist. 
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