CABBAGE 
Cabbage is not difficult to grow. It is 
useful in succession cropping. It is wel- 
come in the kitchen, and it is one of the 
staple health foods, rich in vitamins, par- 
ticular in C, and also in minerals. 
Cabbage is naturally a cool weather plant, 
but it is hardy and will tolerate consider- 
able differences of temperature, provided 
it has an adequate supply of moisture. It 
produces best with an abundance of sun- 
shine and an ample supply of plant food, 
especially nitrogen and potassium. 
The many varieties of cabbage may be 
arranged in three groups, Early, Mid- 
season and Late, of which the first is the 
most important. The Mid-season and Late 
varieties are only planted over a long 
season. 
Packet, 10c; 2 ounce, 40c; ounce, 75c. 
(except as noted) 
Among the early sorts, Early Jersey Wake- 
field, a little pointed cabbage, long led 
the field, but has now been largerly super- 
seded by Golden Acre which is just as 
early, about two months from transplant- 
ing, and Copenhagen Market, both globe 
shaped, very solid and neat. 
Early Jersey Wakefield (63 days) : Head 
small, compact, conical, short stems. 
Packet, 10c; 2 ounce, 35c; ounce, 60c. 
Copenhagen Market (70 days): Heads 
small, round and solid. 
Golden Acre (64 days): Heads small, 
round. Plants dwarf. 
Early Fat Dutch (90 days): Heads flat, 
solid and very large. 
Vy ounce, 30c; ounce, 50c. 
Of the late cabbages, which take about 
4 months from transplanting, there are 
two types, the round, best typified by 
Danish Ball Head, and the flat, best known 
in the old late Fiat Dutch variety. These 
are both large heads, weighing about 6 
pounds, solid and more suitable for stor- 
age through the months of winter than 
the quicker growing varieties. 
Danish Ball Head (203 days): 
round, very hard and crisp. 
Celery Cabbage (75 days): Heads cylin- 
drical tapering, green. 
Savoy (95 days): Heads round. Leaves 
coarsely crumpled. 
Red Stonehead (100 days) : Heads round. 
Color purplish red. 
CARROTS 
The most popular vegetable of the garden 
is the carrot. No other vegetable gives 
so much in return for so little work ex- 
pended. Then, too, this vegetable finds 
many uses in the kitchen where it can be 
served either raw or cooked, and with 
almost any type of meal. There are three 
types best suited for the average home 
garden, and it is merely a matter of per- 
sonal likes in making your selection. The 
long slender type, popular with commer- 
cial growers, is known as the Imperator 
and does very well in home gardens, pro- 
viding the soil is not rocky. The medium 
sort, cone-shaped Chantenay, is very use- 
ful for planting in heavier soils. Also in 
this group is the Danvers Half-Long, 
which is similarily conical, but longer. 
The third type, and one of the most popu- 
lar, is the cylindrical New Coreless, or 
Nantes Carrot, which is a genuine stump- 
rooted variety, solid and uniform in size. 
Seeds should be planted in successive 
sowings, about two weeks apart, in order 
to have young carrots always coming on. 
Rows should be 15 inches to 18 inches 
Heads 
apart, and the carrots should be thinned 
to about 4 inches apart in the row. If the 
soil is not rich, apply a complete com- 
mercial fertilizer at the rate of 10 pounds 
per 100 foot row. Two or three packets 
of seed is required for a family of 5. One 
ounce of seed will plant a row 100 feet 
long. 
VY ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also packets. 
Imperator (77 days): Roots 7 to 8 
inches long with sloping shoulders, 
smooth, deep orange. Uniformly tapered 
to blunt end. 
PSC Coreless (70 days): Stump-rooted 
type. Longer than other types. Crisp, 
solid and uniform in size and color. 
Danvers Half Long (75 days): Medium 
length tapering to blunt end. Good color 
and fine quality. Sweet, crisp and tender. 
Improved Chantenay (72 days): Roots 
52 to 6 inches long. Deep orange, 
smooth tapered, stump rooted. 
Long Orange (68 days) : Heavy cropping 
variety, 11 to 11% inches long. 
Oxheart (72 days) : Roots 41% to 5 inches 
long. Bright orange, blunt end. 
CAULIFLOWER 
This epicurean vegetable is esteemed by 
many connoisseurs as the best of all the 
cabbage tribe. It is more difficult to grow 
than any other plant of the cabbage 
family, and like most of them will not 
stand heat or drouth, which limits its cul- 
ture to areas free of these conditions. The 
ideal soil for cauliflower is very fertile and 
moist, but well drained. Good preparation 
and enrichment are therefore necessary, 
and especially on sandy soils, humus will 
be incorporated to good advantage. 
It is best to start seed in flats or frames, 
the same as for cabbage, transplanting to 
their permanent spot in the garden after 
the danger of frost is passed. The distance 
between plants should be 2 feet, with ap- 
proximately 3 feet between the rows. 
Twenty-five plants will probably be 
enough for a family of 5. A packet of 
seed is ample in most cases. 
Mt. Hood Snowball is the best early va- 
riety for this section of the country, hav- 
ing pure white, fine quality heads of me- 
dium uniform size. Early Snowball is 
another popular variety, which produces 
medium to large round heads that are 
pure white when blanched. 
Packet, 10c; 1% ounce, 65c; 
Y2 ounce, $1.25. 
CELERIAC 
This type of celery does not produce edi- 
ble stalks, but instead a bulbous base of 
about 3 inches in diameter, very useful in 
the concoction of celery soup, or celery 
sauce. It is also an excellent vegetable 
in its own right when served in the man- 
ner of turnips, or sliced thinly into a 
salad bowl. It is raised in the same man- 
ner as celery. 
CELERY 
Celery is such a fastidious plant, and de- 
mands so much from the garden, that 
under ordinary circumstances, its produc- 
tion is better left to specialized commer- 
cial growers. Briefly, the conditions for 
celery growing are a light soil, full of 
humus and fertilizer, continuous moisture 
and persistent attention of the gardener. 
Golden self-blanching is probably the best 
all-around early variety and Utah, which 
is the standard pascal type, is recom- 
mended for the late crop. A packet of seed 
will produce ample plants for an average 
family. 
Packet, 10c; 2 ounce, 40c; ounce, 75c. 

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