The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-12-22

He gets some melons, but how is he
going to pick out yours from cargo
say Of 10000. You may ship very
fine lot and he may get quite an in
ferior lot. Some Of the first-class
commission men advertised this year
that they did not want any melons.
The handling of them was so unsatis-
factory that they prefer not to have
anything to do with them. However
some money is sometimes made with
them especially where you get them
in early before the Georgia melon
comes in and ship to Georgia cities.
Cabbage this past spring sold we'll,
from 81 to $3.50 per barrel. Start
your plant bed in August and Sep
tember. I am inclined to think that
Gould's Carbolated Phosphate, made
in Jacksonville, Fla, will be found
excellent to put on your seed.bed,
keeping off the little flea beetle so de-
structive to young plants when they
first come through the ground. Cab
bage needs plenty of fertilizer. The
Flat Dutch will be found as good as
any tor general purposes. Plant
three feet apart or three feet one way
and two and halt the other. From
1000 to 5000 heads can be grown
on an acre. Hoe we'll and hoe often;
unlike beans the cabbage seems TO
relish beng worked while it is wet
either with dew or rain. A pinch of
salt sprinkled on the heads while
they are growing is said TO be bene>
fetal.
Beets and carrots both do we'll,
sow them from November on to
February in drills fifteen inches wide;
thin out your beets to four or five
inches apart; carrots to two or three
inches. The Early Blood turnip
with few Early Bassane are all
you need in the beet line. OF car
rots the early French Horn and the
Alsringham viii be FouDd' go0ds
enough.
Caulitiower, where one has rich
moist hammock land, can not fail to
do well, and even on our pine land
with an ordinary moist season would
no doubt head well. Start your
seed beds the same as cabbage and
do not stint your fertilizer when you
put them out. Early Erturt and
half early Paris will be found good
while Henderson's snow ball is
highly spoken OF.
In raising Turnips do not fertillze
too heavily, to get the sweetest root
new land moderately fertilized will
be found the best, rich cow penned
land will grow them to an enormous
size, splendid looking specimens, but
to ME so strong as to be almost un-
eatable. Plant them from Septem-
Der until February, SOW either broad
cast or in drills the same as beets,
the red top strap leaved, the new
white egg and the golden ball, will
all be found good, make successive
sowings through the season andsuse
while young and brittle, as age
creeps over them they commence
getting pithy and their value for
culinary purposes is almost gone,
they are easily raised and u good one
most always relished
Celery have never experimental
much with, that is, down South here.
North l raised it in large quantities,
but find banking it up with sand
here is apt to rust it. In another
year hope to be able TO give some
thing practical about it,
Onions any one can raise from the
sets, but to grow tor market, from
the seed, l have never seen 1t done
here. l should judge that to be sue
cesstul here, you would want to SOW
in October. Have your ground wei |
prepared and raked down SMOOTH
most any ot the small hand sowing
machines will SOW the seed we'll III
drills, about fourteen inches apart,
and you can leave a stand OF one to
TWO Inches in the drill, hundreds OF
bushels can be raised on an acre, but
there is considerable back achelng
work about 1t. The yellow Danvers
always gave me as good success as
any.
Peas, | have said nothing about
peas from the tact that their culture
as market crop lat least IN this
saotiouN has haan OiVan almost pp.