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No. 273. - The Cabbage is a biennial plant and is propagated from seed sown annually. Cabbage is a plant extensively used and is prepared in various ways. It is very nutritious and there are many varieties. The white, the green and the red may be had all the year round. The cauliflower, brocoli, Brussels sprouts and kale all belong to the Cabbage family. Cabbage should be well cooked, otherwise it will cause indigestion. In boiling Cabbage, if the water is changed, it will remove that strong odor disliked by many. To preserve Cabbage during winter, pall them on a dry day and turn them over on their heads for a few hours so as to let them drain. Set them in a cool cellar or bury them with their heads down in long trenches in a dry situation. In the Middle States bury the heads and parts of the stump in the open ground, placing over them a light covering of straw or boards to protect them from severe weather. The Savoy Cabbage is the best of the white sorts. The red Cabbage is formed the same as the other Cabbages, and only differs from them in color, and is preferred by many to the other sorts. It is best in the fall and throughout winter and keeps well, but the outer leaves must be occasionally removed, or else they will decay.

Culture

No. 274. - For the successful culture of Cabbage the very best quality of seed must be used. A heavy moist and fresh loam is most suitable, and should be highly manured, as well as deeply worked:. The early sorts should be sown very early in hot beds, hardened off and transplanted eighteen to twenty inches apart, early in the spring. In the South, sow them from the middle of September to the middle of October, and transplant into cold frames, to preserve them through the winter, setting them into open ground as early as possible. The late autumn and winter varieties may be sown from the middle to the last of spring, and transplanted when about six inches high, three feet apart each way. Shade and water the late sowings in dry weather to get them up. It is important that the plants should stand thinly in the seed bed, or they will run up weak and slender, and be liable to make long stumps. In transplanting they must be set in the ground up to the first leaf, no matter how long the stem may be. Cabbages should be hoed every week, and the ground stirred deeper as they advance in growth, throwing up a little earth to the plant each time, until they begin to head, when they should be thoroughly cultivated and left to mature. Loosening the roots will often retard the bursting of full grown heads.

Early Jersey Wakefield

No. 275. - The heads are very compact, of medium size, conical and early, as well as sure as a heading sort.

Early Etampes

No. 276. - This matures nearly or quite as early as the Jersey Wakefield, but is not as pointed. It forms small, compact heads as early as the earliest, and is of excellent quality.

Early York

No. 277. - A very valuable early variety, with small, heart-shaped, firm and tender heads, of a very dwarf growth.