I would also add the Black-seeded Butter Lettuce.
We have now, as far as our space permits, treated of those
vegetables which should be planted in the home garden as early in
spring as possible. It is true the reader will think of other
sorts, as cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, etc. To the professional
gardener these are all-the-year-round vegetables. If the amateur
becomes so interested in his garden as to have cold-frames and
hot-beds, he will learn from more extended works how to manage
these. He will winter over the cabbage and kindred vegetables for
his earliest supply, having first sown the seed in September. I do
not take the trouble to do this, and others need not, unless it is
a source of enjoyment to them. As soon as the ground is fit to
work in spring, I merely write to some trust-worthy dealer in
plants and obtain twenty-five very early cabbage, and twenty-five
second early, also a hundred early cauliflower. They cost little,
and are set out in half an hour as soon as the ground is fit to
work in spring. I usually purchase my tomato, late cabbage, and
cauliflower, celery and egg-plants, from the same sources.
Cabbages and cauliflowers should be set out in RICH warm soils,
free from shade, as soon as the frost is out. After that they need
only frequent and clean culture and vigilant watchfulness, or else
many will fall victims to a dirty brown worm which usually cuts
the stem, and leaves the plant lying on the ground.
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