FIVE MILLION CABBAG-E PLAITS. 
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^[[|^ AST year I sold over one million Cabbage plants, and could have sold many more. 
JjLr This year I think 1 have enough and to spare, and they are unusually good plants, 
grown from the very best of seed. The plants are now large enough to set out, and 
I can fill all orders promptly. 
My farm is within a mile of Coldwater station, on the New York Central R; R. 
There is an American Express and Telegraph Office there. Nothing could be more con¬ 
venient. Plants can be growing on the farm one hour and the next be on an Express 
train, and by the next morning may be on another farm 500 miles away. 
. Will the plants wilt? Certainly they will; but it does not hurt them. If you trans¬ 
plant cabbage on your own farm, even if they are not out of the ground a minute, the 
plants will wilt. It is better to let them wilt in the shade, say in an Express car, rather 
than to set them out fresh in the ground and let them wilt in the hot sun. The only pre¬ 
caution necessary is to keep the roots moist and the plants from heating. As a rule wo 
puddle the roots before packing them, and ship in open boxes or baskets. 
A well-known seedsman was looking at my plants a few days ago: “ Why,*’ said he, 
“you. have got five acres of cabbage and celery plants. On that amount of land we 
should grow ten times as many plants as you do. Your rows are nearly two feet apart 
and only moderately thick in the row.” “They are none the worse for that” I said, “and 
we leave the rows wide enough apart to admit the use of a horse hoe. It enables us to keep 
the land clean and mellow, and we can grow strong, stocky plants, with plenty of roots.” 
“Oh! certainly,” he said, “but on our high-priced land we cannot afford it.” This is 
true; but there is plenty of land in the United States and there is no necessity for growing 
cabbage plants so thick as to be practically worthless. 
I think I have as good cabbage plants as can be found any where—just such as I set 
out for my own crop, and I shall do my best to have them roach my customers in good 
condition. We do not pull the plants; we first run a narrow cultivator through the center 
of the rows and then dig the plants with forks or potato hooks. This leaves plenty of 
roots on the plants. 
