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A KITCHEN GARDEN 
shoulder than the Eclipse; the foliage is short and 
stocky, enabling a heavy crop to be grown, as they 
can be grown as closely as six inches apart; the flesh, 
of a deep blood red, is of the finest quality. 
Burpee’s Improved Blood Turnip. —This beet 
attains quite a large size and is very smooth and regu¬ 
lar in appearance; the flesh is deep blood red and 
of fine quality, whether eaten in summer or stored 
for winter use; it is one of the best varieties for the 
latter purpose, and should be sown as described for 
the winter crop. 
CABBAGES. 
Of this vegetable two distinct crops, are raised in 
every garden, while many gardeners, by successive 
sowings and the use of several varieties, have them 
fit for use constantly from early spring until fall, and 
throughout the entire winter by storage. In the 
ordinary garden the same result may be obtained by 
planting larger quantities of the early and summer 
varieties, and cutting them as wanted for use, as 
most of them will stand the whole summer without 
bursting or going to seed, and by early fall some of 
the winter cabbage will be large enough for use. 
Early or Summer Cabbages. —The seed for these 
should be sown in a hotbed from the 1st to the 15th 
of February. As soon as the plants are large enough 
to set out they should be given plenty of air, and 
should be gradually hardened off until they are able 
to stand the cool nights without protection ; but they 
should not be allowed to freeze. Treated in this way 
they will be ready for planting out as soon as the 
