. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. lvania, for example,four inches of soil and fourinches of manure will keep thecabbage in perfect condition,provided the location is pro-tected on the north and westfrom hard winds. There is noadvantage in burying cabbagewith the roots on. The bestplan is to cut the stems witha sharp hatchet, leaving stubs four or five inches long for convenience inhandling the crop. Cabbage should be grown in a long-period rotation in order to avoidlosses from clubroot, and the land should be kept well limed as a preventivemeasure agai
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. lvania, for example,four inches of soil and fourinches of manure will keep thecabbage in perfect condition,provided the location is pro-tected on the north and westfrom hard winds. There is noadvantage in burying cabbagewith the roots on. The bestplan is to cut the stems witha sharp hatchet, leaving stubs four or five inches long for convenience inhandling the crop. Cabbage should be grown in a long-period rotation in order to avoidlosses from clubroot, and the land should be kept well limed as a preventivemeasure against this most dreaded disease. The common green cabbageworm is best controlled by spraying with arsenate of lead. Carrot.—The carrot is becoming more popular in America every is easily grown in any rich soil, but attains its best development in sandyloams. By using early and late varieties and by making successive sowings,it is possible to have roots for sale and for the home table from June untillate in the fall, and then the crop may be stored for winter A Plant Transferred with Plenty op EarthIS NOT Checked in Growth. VEGETABLES AND THEIR CULTURE 31 There are numerous varieties of carrots, but the best known early-varieties are Early Short Scarlet and Early Scarlet Horn; for mediumearly, Model, Danvers Half Long Orange and Danvers Half Long Scarlet,Oxheart and Rubicon are popular. Long Orange is the leading late long-rooted variety. For the early crop, seed should be sown as early in the spring as theground can be prepared. It is customary to allow about a foot of spacebetween rows for the early varieties and fifteen inches for the late. Theearly kinds may be thinned to stand two or three inches apart in the row
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