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CABBAGE PLANTS 
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Carlisle cabbage plants are tough and hardy, with a strong, well-devel¬ 
oped root system, because they are grown in the open field during the 
late winter and early spring. Carlisle cabbage plants can withstand a 
temperature as low as 20 degrees. Because these plants are capable of 
withstanding the harsh weather of early Northern springs, they can be 
set in the open field two or three weeks earlier than home-grown or 
hot-bed plants. Usually Carlisle cabbage plants can be set in Northern 
fields just after the first spring thawing. Because these plants are grown 
slowly in the late Southern winter and early spring, they have a strong- 
well-developed root system. 
Market gardeners and Kraut canners use Carlisle plants because they 
can have cabbage on the market three weeks earlier than they can with 
home-grown or hot-bed plants. 
Varieties—Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield, Early Flat Dutch, 
Golden Acre, Succession, Copenhagen. 
TOMATO PLANTS 
Carlisle Tomato plants are grown during the cool days of 
early Southern spring. Their slow growth in the open fields 
makes them strong and hardy. Carlisle tomato plants have 
weeks of growth which is not found in hot-bed plants. This 
additional age causes them to start producing fruit soon after 
they are set. This early fruit makes ripe tomatoes two or 
three weeks earlier than home-grown plants. Because Car¬ 
lisle plants afford a longer producing season, they make more 
tomatoes per acre. 
It is estimated that more than one hundred million tomato 
plants are shipped each spring from Georgia to Northern 
canners, including firms like Campbell Soup, Libby, McNeill 
and Libby, Van Camp, and Stokley Brothers. These canners 
can start their factories two or three weeks earlier by using 
Southern-grown plants. 
Varieties—Marglobe, Pritchard, Livingston Globe, Bonnie 
Best, Earliana Rutgers, Stokesdale, Valiant, Break-o-uay, 
Baltimore, Stone, Ponderosa, John Baer. 
ONION PLANTS 
Onion plants produce onions more quickly than sets. Always use 
plants to produce green onions in the early spring for home use or for 
early market. Green onions can be put on the market several weeks 
earlier when plants are used than when sets are planted. They have 
two chances to be sold. They can be bunched green and sold early, 
or left to grow to maturity and sold as dry onions in the fall. 
Because of the demand we have doubled our acreage of Riverside 
Sweet Spanish Onion Plants, both the yellow and white varieties. Our 
customers claim that these onions are best for home use, as well as 
for market. 
Varieties—Bermuda, Crystal Wax, Prizetaker, Riverside Sweet Span¬ 
ish (white and yellow). 
