Cabbages and Cauliflowers

Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them is a practical treatise, giving full details on every point, including keeping and marketing the crop, by James J. H. Gregory. The contents list names, among others, sections called Selecting the Soil, Preparing the Soil, The Manure, How to Apply the Manure, Making the Hills and Planting the Seed and Care of the Young Plants. In some of the best cabbage-growing sections of the country, until within a comparatively few years, the very general belief was that cabbage would not do well on upland.

The text says the catalogues of the English and French seedsmen contain long lists of varieties, many of which, and this is especially true of the early kinds, are either the same variety under a different name. Of the somewhat later ripening sorts, the writer says, a variety which originated in this country, called the Long Island Beauty, gives great satisfaction in its reliability for heading and in the large size of its heads.