The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Cabbage, Beets, Onions, Lettuce.
Notes Relative Thereto.

upon Inc following VOplC6s
l. What is the best variety of cabbage
to sow in the fall to head in the spring
for local market and for shipment2 ?.
How are the earliest beets and onions
grown for shipping north2 3. Can let
tuce be made a profitable crop for ship
ping to northern markets, and which is
the best kind for the purpose
Ware County. AMATEUR.
There are many different names given
to one variety of cabbage las is the case
with every other vegetable probably. A
good strain of the Improved American
Drumhead Savoy is an excellent kind for
fall planting. 1t is very hardy, and
usually a sure header. 1t is we'll to plant
two or three kinds that head at intervals.
The Improved Fottlers Brunswick is a
good kind. The An Seasons" is well
approved. A good strain of the old
Flat Dutch, as YOU know, is a
standby and is unsurpassed. BY all
means buy your cabbage seeds from some
q well known. reputable scotsman. who
will warrant their quality. This is one
vegetable the seeds of which we must
buy Of the northern grower. We cannot
grow our cabbage seeds.
?. Early beets are very profitable
crop, as you know. The earliest crop is
grown by sowing the seeds in frames in
November and December, and growing
plants to be set out just as soon as the
winter freezes are over. In Middle Geor-
gla we grow plants to set out early in Feb
ruary, but in your section it is usually
safe to set out in January and even ear
lier In mild winters we have known
successful settings TO be made in January
even in Middle Georgia. Earliest onions
70 nenal1y 11aHa from nj 6a
in the fall, but one practice for many
years has been to sow the black seeds of
some of the Italian varieties, New
Queen, Nocira or Rocca, in the
winter in cold frames and set
out the plants in January or February.
This is the cheapest, surest way to grow
onions anyway. Have you never tried
this plano BY all means try it if not
Get fresh seeds Of thu New Queen and
Giant Rocca (both), and sow them in
cold frame or hot bed, so called, o warm
border, and raise the plants and trans
plant these into well prepared soil just as
soon as the hard freezes are over. When
YOU learn how to do this just right, you
Will have learned how to make onions
proftably. You will never again plant
high-priced sets after you learn how to
grow your own onion plants.
We will in the next number enter into
the minutest details Of the management
OF This crop, as we have several inquiries
regarding it.
. g. 1t is difficult to carry lettuce long
distances and present it in a fresh, crisp,
inviting condition, and we do not know
what has been the experience of southern
growers. The two kinds that are most to
be recommended, in our opinion, are the
Improved Cos and the Boston Market
When perfectly grown they are very fine
indispensable, 1T may be said. When
they can be delivered fresh and with the
dew on them the heads of either will
bring about as much as a cabbage head,
and are very profitable. We are not in
formed as TO the distance they will stand
shipping, but in this respect they prob
ably are equal to any other varieties.
More than 10000 perfect heads of Cos
should be grown to the acre--twice the
number of Boston Markets, that is if set
at the proper time on soil properly en-
riched for such crop.