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Title: Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them
A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point,
Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop

Author: James John Howard Gregory

Release Date: August 8, 2006 [EBook #19006]

Language: English

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Cabbages

and

Cauliflowers:

HOW TO GROW THEM.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE, GIVING FULL DETAILS ON EVERY POINT,
INCLUDING KEEPING AND MARKETING THE CROP.

[Illustration: Cabbage Head]

BY

JAMES J. H. GREGORY,

ORIGINAL INTRODUCER OF THE MARBLEHEAD, DEEP HEAD, WARREN,
ALL SEASONS, HARD HEADING, AND REYNOLDS CABBAGES.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by
JAMES J. H. GREGORY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
OBJECT OF TREATISE 1

THE ORIGIN OF CABBAGE 1

WHAT A CABBAGE IS 2

SELECTING THE SOIL 4

PREPARING THE SOIL 5

THE MANURE 6

HOW TO APPLY THE MANURE 8

MAKING THE HILLS AND PLANTING THE SEED 11

CARE OF THE YOUNG PLANTS 16

PROTECTING THE PLANTS FROM THEIR ENEMIES