. Descriptive catalogue and price list : flower, field and garden seeds. CabbageâFlat Dutch. CULTUREâThe ground should be highly manured, deeply dug and thoroughly worked. A heavy, moist and fresh loam is very suitable. For early cabbages the seed should be sown in a hotbed, in March, and transplanted in the field in April, two feet one way and fifteen to eighteen inches in the other. For late, or winter crops, the seeds may be sown either in a cold frame or even in the open ground, in April or beginning of May, and transplanted, when they are four or five inches high, in rows two or three fee
. Descriptive catalogue and price list : flower, field and garden seeds. CabbageâFlat Dutch. CULTUREâThe ground should be highly manured, deeply dug and thoroughly worked. A heavy, moist and fresh loam is very suitable. For early cabbages the seed should be sown in a hotbed, in March, and transplanted in the field in April, two feet one way and fifteen to eighteen inches in the other. For late, or winter crops, the seeds may be sown either in a cold frame or even in the open ground, in April or beginning of May, and transplanted, when they are four or five inches high, in rows two or three feet apart and from eighteen inches to two feet in the row. To destroy the green worm, so destructive to the leaves, take one ounce of saltpeter and dissolve in three gallons of water, and sprinkle the plants well. Unless it is washed off by rains, one application is sufficient. To destroy the flea, which at- tacks the young plants, sift fine air-slacked lime or tobacco dust as soon as the flea appears above the ground. One reproduces about 2,500 plants. ALL SEASONS. A new Drumhead Cabbage as early and every way as good as Early Summer, but yielding heads from a third to a half as large again. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, % lb. 65c, lb. $ ALL-HEAD EARLY. It is among the earliest of the large cabbages. It is fully one-third larger than Early Summer. â ', Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, % lb. 65c, lb. $ EXTRA EARLY EXPRESS. One of the earliest cabbages producing well formed conical heads, remarkably large for so early a ripener. Whoever plants it will be amazed in its early maturity, and if he be a market gardener, will be able to place it in market ahead of all competitors. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, % lb. 65c. lb. $ EARLY YORK. This is one of the earliest varietiesâdefi- cient, however, in size, and without ability to stand the heat of the summer. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, % lb. 50c, lb. $ EARLY WINNINGSTADT. A well known and very popu- lar early variety, in season very close to the Wakefield; head
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