better to grow onions from sets planted three inches apart, in drills. Sets are small onions grown the previous year, from seed sown quite thickly. Sets may be planted very early, as they will not be injured even if the ground should freeze after they are planted. Wethersfield and Danvers are good varieties. For extra large specimens, sclect Italian varieties.
KOHL RABI, EARLY CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER.
Seed of kohl rabi, early cabbage and cauliflower should be sown in a hotbed, and the plants transplanted to the open ground when four inches high.
Kohl rabi is grown for its turnip-shaped bulb, which is formed above ground, by the expansion of the stem. The bulb should be used while young and tender, as age detracts from its good quality. Set the, plants eight inches apart in the row. For later use sow seed in drills and thin to the proper distance apart. When well grown and properly prepared for the table, the kohl rabi is one of the most desirable of vegetables, and should be in every garden. Early White Vienna is the best variety.
Plant early cabbage in rows, with plants eighteen inches apart in the row. After trying several different sorts I have decided upon Early Jersey Wakefield, Early Flat Dutch, and Fottler’s Brunswick, as the best varieties for this latitude, and, as the cabbage worm has made late cabbage an uncertain crop for several years past here, in southern Illinois, we have planted largely of the Early Flat Dutch cabbage and had it picked and put up before the cabbage worm
