Show experience in cabbage Cl bage culture at the virginia station there was ed last season fifteen varieties of cabbage the plants were grown from seed started in a hotbed late in february or early in march and transplanted to a coll cold frame about three weeks later and set in in the open ground as early in april as the ground was fit to work the growth was retarded by severe drought drou glit but seven kinds were fit to cut for cooking on july 8 2 they should have been ready nearly four weeks earlier of these seven early kinds the wakefield or early jersey wakefield was pronounced the best having eight or ten heads fit for cutting out of twenty five plants and being the lur largest gest weighing liing 2 pounds 3 ounces eighty nine plants in a hundred formed heads beads the winning stadt leaded ninety nine plants out of a hundred undred li and the average eight was six pounds two ounces but was from five to twelve days later in time of cutting cauliflowers were grown basov by sowing and setting at the same time as the tile cabbages and the best were of the early dwarf erfurt type although known as early snowball or other names according to the fancy of the or of those who oz 01 igina initiated ted them by selecting the seed |