E. H. Hunt : seedsman ehhuntseedsman1894hunt Year: 1894 E. H. HUNT, SEEDSMAN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 29 CABBAGE. ONE ounce; ok SKKlJ TO I GO YARDS OF ROW. There is not a month in the year wlien Cabbage is not being sown in some of the gardening sections of the country. It is there- fore impossible to name periods for sowing. That must be determined b\- tlie practice of eacli section. In ageneral way, however, it may be said that Cabbage seed should be sown in February for an early -Summer crop, and in April or May for an Autumn crop, and in September and Octo!>erfor an early Spring crop. The s
E. H. Hunt : seedsman ehhuntseedsman1894hunt Year: 1894 E. H. HUNT, SEEDSMAN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 29 CABBAGE. ONE ounce; ok SKKlJ TO I GO YARDS OF ROW. There is not a month in the year wlien Cabbage is not being sown in some of the gardening sections of the country. It is there- fore impossible to name periods for sowing. That must be determined b\- tlie practice of eacli section. In ageneral way, however, it may be said that Cabbage seed should be sown in February for an early -Summer crop, and in April or May for an Autumn crop, and in September and Octo!>erfor an early Spring crop. The seed is sown in rows of a foot apart, and after the plants reach a height of three to four inches they are pulled up and transplanted to permanent locations, where thev' are set in rows at three or four feet and at intervals of one-and a-half to two feet in the row. To produce a successsul crop of Cabbage the soil must naturally or artificially contain potash, phosphate, nitrogeii. These are all found in good barnvard manure and in some commercial fertil- izers. The Market Gardener feeds his Cabbage wiTHoi T .STINT and with the rankest food; fre- quently plows in the manure in the Autumn, turns it up in the Spring and tlioroughly incorpo- rates it with the soil; plants early, cultivates deeply. ^ Under good conditions and management about eighty per cent, of the plants in a Cabbage field should, on an av erage, produce marketable heads, '.hough sometimes ninety-five per cent, have been marketed. EARLY VARIETIES. Landreth's Earliest Cab- bage. It produces well-fornied, conical heads, remarkably large for so earlv a ripener. Whoever plants it will be amazed at its early maturity, and if he is a Market Gardener, will be able to place it in the inarket ahead of all competitors. The color is emerald green, the leaves smooth on edge, broad and round at ends. Habit vigorous, short on stem, and proof against sun. The heads are ovoid and hard-- few outside leaves and short stem—thus ad
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