. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 200 CABBAGE CABBAGE distribution and the degree to which the plant-food has become immediately available is of equal or greater importance than the quantity. Land can be put into the best condition for raising a maximun crop by a heavy dressing of stable manure, thoroughly worked into a "well-drained, loam
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 200 CABBAGE CABBAGE distribution and the degree to which the plant-food has become immediately available is of equal or greater importance than the quantity. Land can be put into the best condition for raising a maximun crop by a heavy dressing of stable manure, thoroughly worked into a "well-drained, loamy soil, and repeating the process yearly for several seasons. A much heavier dressing of manure can be profitably applied to a soil which has been well fertilized in previous years than to one which has received little or none. The most successful grow- ers use large quantities of manure, often as high as one hundred tons to the acre. When stable manure cannot be readily obtained, it may be supplemented by com- mercial fertilizers, so made up as to contain about seven parts of nitrogen to eight of available phosphoric acid and about six of potash. If we depend entirely upon fertilizers, we should use from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds to the acre, and we should not forget that upon all ordi- nary soils the yield and profitableness of a crop of Cabbage is largely dependent upon the amount of avail- able and evenly distributed plant-food and the degree to which the soil is kept always moist, and more with conditions which can only be secured by frequent and thorough cultivation. Diseases and Some of the Most Common Insect Pests. — Club-root.—T^bis is the effect of a fungus (Plas- midioplwra Mrassicm), which develops within the cells of the root, causing them to become distorted and the plant to develop imperfectly,or die. On the death of the plant, the spores of the fungus become mixed with the soil, where they lie dormant until roots of some other host-plant come in contact with the
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