BUIST’S PEDIGREE CABBAGE 
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INTRODUCTORY 
Our Cabbage seeds are all grown from selected stocks, carefully inspected while growing, 
and also before being put away for the Winter. No finer or purer strains of Cabbage can be 
found anywhere than the Buist’s high-bred “Prize-Medal” American-grown stocks. 
For early Cabbage (where a supply of Fall-grown plants have not been secured) sow 
on a gentle hotbed very early in the season, and as the plants grow, harden them to the full 
exposure of the air, protecting them from frost until the middle of Spring, when they should 
be planted in rows two feet apart, and eighteen inches in the row. It may be observed that 
good heads can only be obtained when the ground has been well worked and highly manured. 
To secure a supply of Fall-grown plants, the seed should be sown in September, from the 
fifteenth to the twentieth, in Pennsylvania. In mild climates they should be planted out late 
in Autumn, to remain for heading, but in cold latitudes they must be protected in cold beds 
or frames, and transplanted early in Spring. 
For Fall and late Winter Cabbage the seed should be sown from the middle to the end 
of Spring, in beds of rich earth, and transplanted in June or July during moist weather, giving 
them a thorough watering at time of removal. The late Spring sowings are, in many situations, 
destroyed by the cabbage-fly as fast as the plants appear. It is always the best plan to sow 
plenty of seed. The plants must have a copious watering every morning until they are trans¬ 
planted. 
Buist’s Early Jersey Wakefield 
Early Jersey Wakefield (Buist’s Selected Strain.)—Undoubtedly the finest strain of this 
most popular well-known early Cabbage in cultivation. Each year the demand is becoming 
greater and it is more largely grown than all the other first early Cabbages combined. The 
heads are extremely solid, pyramidal in shape and of most excellent quality, with little outside 
foliage. Its exceeding hardiness makes it the most profitable early variety to grow for either 
market or home garden, as it always forms a fine solid head. This special stock or strain is 
famous everywhere, both with market gardeners and private growers. It is sold only under 
our seal. Pkt., 5c; % oz., 15c; oz., 25c; 14 lb., 65c; lb., $2.00. 
