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D. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
CABBAGE 
For many years cabbage seed has been a leading specialty with us. Our cabbage seeds are all grown from approved stock 
seeds which are largely of our own development on our Oakview Stock Seed Farm; they are all grown under our personal in¬ 
spection and supervision. We believe there is no seed that is more reliable, nor any that can be more implicitly depended 
upon to give planters uniformly satisfactory results. 
The requisites for complete success with cabbage are: First, good seed. In this crop the quality of the seed used is of the 
greatest importance. No satisfactory results can possibly be obtained when poor seed is planted. Second, rich, well prepared 
ground. A heavy, moist and rich loam is most suitable. Third, frequent and thorough cultivation. The ground should be highly 
manured and worked deep. Cabbage is grown all over the country and specific directions regarding the time and methods of 
planting applicable to all localities cannot be given. In general, north of the 40th parallel the early sorts should be sown very 
early in hotbeds, hardened oil by gradually exposing them to the night air and transplanted as early as the ground is in good 
condition setting eighteen to thirty-six inches apart, according to size of variety. South of the 40th parallel sow about the 
middle of September, or later according to latitude, transplanting into cold-frames if necessary to keep through winter and 
setting in open ground as early as possible in the spring. 
The late autumn and winter varieties may be sown from the middle to the last of spring and transplanted when four to six 
inches high. If the weather and soil are dry the late sowings should be shaded and watered in order to hasten germination, but 
it is important that the plants should not be shaded or crowded in the seed-bed, or they will run up weak and slender and will not 
en u*lT e tran spl&nting well. Cabbages should be hoed every w'eek and the ground stirred as they advance in growth, drawing up 
a little earth to the plants each time until they begin to head, when they should be thoroughly cultivated and left to mature 
Lioosening the roots will sometimes retard the bursting of full grown heads. 
Of late years many crops of early cabbages have been destroyed by maggots at the roots. An effective remedy seems to be to 
remove the earth carefully from around the stem so as to form a funnel-shaped cup and apply Zenoleum, Sanax Dip or some 
similar preparation, diluted at the rate of one part to eighty parts of water. Apply one pint to a plant. A well known remedy is 
to apply an emulsion of kerosene which may be made as follows: Add one quart of kerosene oil to two quarts of boiling fish oil 
soap (whale oil soap), soft soap or any cheap soap which has been thinned to the consistency of cream. Stir the oil thoroughly 
by churning or other method until it has united with the soap and forms a cream-like substance. Then dilute with five times as 
much water and apply once a week. A preventative for the maggot is to spray on forcibly a carbolic acid emulsion diluted with 
thirty parts of water, applied the day after the cabbage plants are transplanted, and repeated several times at intervals of a week 
Tlje cabbage worms which destroy the leaves and heads later may be killed by dusting with pyrethrum 
ig shot or Paris green. The last two are poisonous and should not be used in large quantities, or late in the 
wever, should their use be necessary, care should be 
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taken to remove the outside leaves before the heads are 
used. If the disease called club-root should get a foothold, 
do not plant the land with any of the cabbage family for 
a year or two. This is usually an effective remedy. 
To preserve cabbages during winter, pull them on a 
dry day and turn them over on the heads a few hours to 
drain. Set them out in a cool cellar, or bury them in long 
trenches in a dry situation, covering with boards or 
straw so as to keep out frost and rain. 
For further information see books listed on inside of 
back cover. 
A great many of the varieties of cabbages are simply 
strains rather than distinct sorts and are really the same 
as some older and better known kinds. We are confident 
that every good quality can be found in a greater degree 
in the varieties we offer than in any other kinds. 
FIRST EARLY SORTS 
Early Jersey Wakefield 
and surest heading of first early cabbages for the market 
and home garden. Most gardeners depend upon it for 
the bulk of their extra early crop. The plants are ex¬ 
ceedingly hardy, not only in resisting cold but other un¬ 
favorable conditions. They are compact and erect or very 
slightly spreading, with few outer leaves, which are 
smooth, thick, nearly oval and deep green. The stem is 
short. The heads are of medium size, very solid, uniformly pointed and of 
excellent quality. Our stock, grown and selected with great care, is of 
first quality. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 30c; 2 Oz. 50c; V 4 Lb. 90c; Lb. $2.75 
Charleston or Large Wakefield 
Early Jersey Wakefield 
Copenhagen Market Mea‘d?d 
cabbage yet introduced. The heads are exception¬ 
ally large for so early a variety, very solid and of 
most excellent quality. The plants are vigorous 
but compact, with short stem and few outer leaves 
which are of rather upright growth. The leaves 
are medium light green, nearly round, compara¬ 
tively thick and smooth. This is a most excellent 
sort, both for the home garden and market garden¬ 
ing trade. Our strain produces the characteristic 
large, round heads that for solidity and excellent 
quality make this variety so valuable. Pkt. 5c* 
Oz. 45c; 2 Oz. 80c; V 4 Lb. $1.25; Lb. $4.50 
I _ A strain in which the 
Charleston or Large plant is larger and a 
little later than Early Jersey Wake¬ 
field, the head being fully as solid 
but less pointed and considerably larger. The 
leaves are rather large, smooth and comparatively 
thick. Its exceeding hardiness, earliness and size 
of head have made it with market gardeners and 
shippers a popular sort to follow Jersey Wakefield. 
The plants are medium sized,very vigorous, slightly 
spreading. The heads are blunt-pointed but very 
broad at the base. Our stock can be depended up¬ 
on to produce uniformly fine, marketable heads. 
Pkt. 5c; Oz. 30c; 2 Oz. 50c; V 4 Lb. 90c; Lb. $2.75 
r I The earliest flat-headed variety. 
tLariy opring The plants are vigorous, very 
compact, with few outer leaves and a short stem. 
The leaves are nearly round, broad, smooth and of 
distinctive light green color, almost without bloom. 
The heads are broad, round, slightly flattened- 
Pkt. 5c; Oz. 25c; 2 Oz. 40c; V 4 Lb. 75c; Lb. $2 50. 
