usually be procured in most sections at a 
small cost but purchasers have less chance 
of knowing what kind of stock they are 
planting unless they purchase of some one 
they can trust. Good plants are plenty in 
this vicinity at $1 50 per thousand, and can 
probably be obtained cheaply elsewhere. 
They are usually set 2 feet by 3, and cul¬ 
tivated by horse one way, in this manner it 
requires about 7000 plants for an acre. 
It is very important that plants which 
have good roots are set, as otherwise they 
are liable to perish from club-root, or other 
disease. In my Manual of Vegetable Plants, 
published three years ago. I first advanced 
the theory that the little white maggots 
which are frequently found in plant beds, 
and which eat the fibrous roots off, leaving 
only a long straight tap-root, are the larvse 
of the striped fleai beetle, and that to escape 
the maggots the flea must first be kept off. 
This theory received considerable criticism 
from other writers, but no one has as yet 
been able to disprove it, and from further 
experience I am more than ever convinced 
that it is correct, and should not now think 
of growing healthy plants without endeav¬ 
oring to keep the flea beetles off from the 
start. Plants set during the latter part of 
June or in July are less frequetly disturbed 
by these fleas and maggots than those set 
earlier and hence are as a rule not so fre¬ 
quently diseased. 
The cabbage worm which but a few years 
ago made such havoc, has been so near¬ 
ly exterminated by its parasitic enemies 
that it gives no occasion for alarm, in this 
locality at least. A few worms will be 
found upon the plants when hoeing, but 
as the season advances they grow scarcer 
instead of more plentiful and do no partic¬ 
ular damage. 
EARLY WINNIGSTADT CABBAGE 1 
There is a principle in transplanting cab¬ 
bage and other succulent plants which is 
unknown, or overlooked by many parties. 
They seem of the opinion that the sooner a 
plant is reset after being taken from the 
seed-bed the more sure it is to live. A 
moment’s thought will show the fallacy of 
this idea, if it does not a little practice will. 
The plant gets its supply of moisture and 
sustenance from the soil by means of nu¬ 
merous small mouths at the extremities of 
of the fine rootlets. When the plant is re¬ 
moved from its seed-bed, more or less of 
these are of necessity broken and the 
evaporation is continually going on from 
its leaves, more or less rapidly ac¬ 
cording to the degree of heat and sunlight 
it is made to stand. If transplanted at 
once it follows that the plant must of 
necessity wilt badly, and if the weather is 
hot and soil dry it may never survive. If 
however, on being removed it has its roots 
“puddled” in muddy water and is then laid 
in a cool moist place, in from 12 to 48 hours 
numerous small white rootlets will be form¬ 
ed, the leaves will stiffen up and every 
energy of the plant is set at recovery. 
In other words the plant is convalescent, 
and if given half a chance for its life will 
commence growing with renewed vigor. 
For these reasons, plants which have been 
well packed and transported considerable 
distances by express will often wilt less on 
setting, and start to growing sooner than 
those which are reset at once when taken 
from the seed-bed. 
June 25, 1880. 
