Part 22

W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Seed Growers, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

HOW TO GROW

Cabbages and Cauliflowers

MOST PROFITABLY.

Illustrated. Price 30 cents, postpaid, by mail.

It is not too much to say that this book gives the most complete information on the successful growing of these important crops that has ever been published. The prize essays, carefully edited, are published in full, and are written by growers of long experience--Capt. G. H. HOWARD, of Suffolk County, L. I., well known as one of the most successful and largest growers of Cauliflower and Cabbage in America, and by Mr. J. PEDERSEN (BJERGAARD), of Denmark, a well-known writer and grower. To these is added an appendix that will interest our lady friends, giving, as it does, the recipes for cooking these vegetables, furnished for this book by Mr. S. J. SOYER, Chief Cook to His Majesty, the King of Denmark. The book treats fully on:--

How to succeed with CABBAGES--The Best Soils--The Cabbage a Greedy Feeder--Manures--Planting and Cultivation--Insects--Early Cabbages--Late Cabbages--Cutting and Marketing.

CAULIFLOWER--Selection of Land--Making Seed Bed and Sowing Seed--Cultivation--The Earliest Forcing of Cauliflowers--Cauliflowers in the Open Ground--For the Family Garden--Enemies of the Cauliflower--Varieties--Tying and Bleaching--Cutting--Trimming--Packing for Market--How to Keep for Winter Use--Numerous Recipes for Cooking Cabbage and Cauliflower.

Few, if any, crops that can be grown on the farm yield larger returns than Cabbage and Cauliflower, and with this “How to Grow” Treatise success is reasonably assured.

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W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO.,

PHILADELPHIA, PA., AND LONDON, ENGLAND.

ROOT CROPS

FOR

STOCK FEEDING,

AND HOW TO GROW THEM.

Illustrated. Price 30 Cents, by mail, postpaid.

This treatise has been carefully compiled from the prize essays, with copious additions from our own experience in growing these crops. It treats fully not only on HOW TO GROW, but also HOW TO STORE and HOW TO FEED, with notes on the relative value for stock feeding of the different varieties of Beets, Mangels, Carrots, Parsnips, Turnips and Ruta Bagas. In these days of low prices for cereals and high valuation of land, ROOT CROPS FOR STOCK FEEDING is a subject of the greatest importance to every progressive farmer desirous of making THE FARM PAY A PROFIT.

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W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., SEED GROWERS, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

FOOTNOTES:

Miss Moll says that this rusting can be prevented by only hoeing the beans when the soil is dry. We would also particularly recommend Burpee’s Perfection Wax, a fine new variety, that has so far proved free from rust.--ED.

See the method of covering the seed of Lima beans described by Miss L. M. Moll, and our note on the same.--ED.

We would also particularly recommend Burpee’s White Zulu, a new variety of 1888. It is one of the earliest of pole beans, immensely productive, and the broad, handsome, white pods, eight to ten inches long, are of the choicest quality.--ED.

The Extra Early Express, a new variety, just introduced from France, and seed of which we distributed for trial this year, has proved eight to ten days earlier than the Etampes. The heads do not average quite as large as the Etampes, but are of equally as good quality and of the shape shown in the illustration on page 60.--ED.