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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Catalogs Gardening Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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GE. KopfRohl, Ger. Chou Pomme ou Gaims, Kr. Coi 6 Refollo. Span. The early sorts are extensively cultivated for the eariy summer market, and may be raised as fono\vs : Sow theseed in well-prepared, rich ground, from the 10th to the 25th of September. When the plants aje large enough totransplant, prick them out of the seed-bed into cold frames. In planting it is important to set the plants down tothe first leaf, so that the stem is all under ground ; if exposed they will be split by the frost, which will injure them.Protect the plants during severe weather with a covering of boards, observing to give them plenty of air and lightduring mild weather. Large plants are liable to run to seed should the winter be mild. Make rather two sowings,Wid select small but stocky plants. The plants are usually set out from the middle of March to the middle of April, Remit for postage, 16 cts. per pouDcl, cr 25 cts. per quart or fraction thereof, when ordered to be sent bv mail DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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1. Early Cannon Ball Cabbagf. 2. Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage. 3. Early Winnigstadt Cabbage. 4. Early French Oxheart Cabbage. 5. Early Red Dutch Erfurt Cabbage. 6 Drumhead Savoy Cabbage. 7. Hendersons Early Summer Cabbage. 8. Early Improved Flat Brunswick Cabbage 9. Early Favorite Curled Savoy Cabbage.10. Large Late Flat Dutch Cabbage. II. Large Late Drumhead Cabbage, DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR, 13 C A B B A G E— Contin ned. 20 2 OO 40 4 CO 42 4 CO 40 4 00 In rcms about 2 feet apart, and iS inches in the rows. They nay ako be raised by sowing the seed very early Intfie spring, in hot-beds ; after hardening off the plants, set out in deep and well-manured ground. They should bohoed every week, and the ground stirred deeper as they advance in growth, drawing a little more earth to theplants each time, hilling up when the>- begin to head. The autumn and winter varieties sow in April or early in May, in a moderaiely shaded border, in shallow drilb,3 or 4 inches apart; transplant early

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