Planting and Cultural Directions 
CARE OF PLANTS ON ARRIVAL— 
As soon as your plants come, take them out of the crates and set 
them out. If not ready to set, trench them out in soft mud, 
cutting the strings and spreading the plants. Keep the roots moist 
and the tops dry. 
CABBAGE, COLLARD, BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER—Prepare land with one thousand 
pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer to the acre. These plants are frostproof, and will usually stand a 
temperature of ten degrees below freezing. Set the plants in the soil up to the bud, and water. 
For sucking insects spray with Blackleaf 40 or dust with Rotenone. For leaf-eating insects 
dust with calcium arsenate or 5% DDT dust. 
ONIONS—Onions are frostproof and can stand a temperature ten degrees below i.eezing. 
Prepare land with one thousand pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer to the acre. Harvest when the tops 
dry and cure for storage. Dust for onion thrip with 5% DDT or Benzine Hexachloride. 
LETTUCE—Prepare land with one thousand pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer to the acre. These 
plants will stand ten degrees below freezing, and should be set early enough to head before 
hot weather. 
TOMATO—Prepare land with 600 pounds of 4-12-6 fertilizer to the acre. Set plants up to the 
first leaf. Will stand no frost. For insects, fungous and bacterial diseases spray every 10 days 
with Bordeaux Mixture, or dust with 7% metallic Tri-Basic Copper Sulphate and 20% calcium 
arsenate. 
PEPPER AND EGGPLANT —These plants will not stand any frost. Prepare land with 800 
pounds of 4-12-6 fertilizer to the acre. Set plants up to the first leaf. Dust Eggplant every 
10 days with 20% arsenate dust for potato bugs. 
SWEET POTATO—Prepare land with 800 to 1000 pounds of 4-8-8 fertilizer to the acre, and 
throw up 8 inch ridges on the fertilizer. Set plants after danger of frost is over. Harvest just 
before frost kills the vines. 
PLANT SETTING CHART 
i i No. Plants No. Plants 
KIND OF PLANT j for 100 ft. for 1 acre 
Cabbage, Collard 
Broccoli, Cauliflower 
Pepper, Eggplant 
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