. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. ed leaf-stems. Brussels sproutsis regarded as a more delicate dish than cabbage. Cabbage.—This is universally regarded as one of the most important VEGETABLES AND THEIR CULTURE 29 farm garden crops. It fits in well with the general rotations practiced onAmerican farms, and takes the place of potatoes after clover. It returnssatisfactory profits wherever good markets are available. Jersey Wakefield is the leading early variety. Charleston Wakefield,which is somewhat larger and a few days later, is also popular. Copen-ha
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. ed leaf-stems. Brussels sproutsis regarded as a more delicate dish than cabbage. Cabbage.—This is universally regarded as one of the most important VEGETABLES AND THEIR CULTURE 29 farm garden crops. It fits in well with the general rotations practiced onAmerican farms, and takes the place of potatoes after clover. It returnssatisfactory profits wherever good markets are available. Jersey Wakefield is the leading early variety. Charleston Wakefield,which is somewhat larger and a few days later, is also popular. Copen-hagen Market is a round-headed early variety of special merit which hasrecently come into prominence. Early Summer, Succession and All Heartare very good midsummer varieties. Succession is also largely grown forlate use, seed being sown later than for late varieties. Flat Dutch andDrumhead are well-known late sorts. Danish Ball Head is extensivelygrown for winter use. It possesses better keeping qualities than any otherlate variety. The heads are roundish and very Four Strains op Jersey Wakefield Cabbage. GrcwTi at The Pennsylvania State College, which show extreme variations in thegerminating power of the seeds. Cabbage requires a very rich soil for the best results. Stable manuresare used extensively for this crop. Commercial fertilizers containing not lessthan four per cent of nitrogen and six to eight per cent of each of the mineralelements, are also applied at the rate of one-half ton to a ton to the acre. Seed for the early crop should be sown in the hotbed or greenhouseabout ten weeks in advance of planting in the field. In most northernsections the seed is sown about the first of February and the seedlings aretransplanted to the cold-frame about the first of March. With properframe management they will be well hardened and ready for the field April10th or 15th. The late crop is usually started in May. Danish Ball Head requiresa full season and it is a mistake to
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