CABBAGE

vegetable; the wild c. (Bra ica oleracea), is the ancestral species of all cultivated varieties of a thrives in deeply-dug, well-manured clay or loam soil, which should be rolled before planting and frequently stirred and hoed afterwards. They are planted when about 3 in. tall, 1 to 2 ft. apart each way. Enemies include: Club, or ‘finger and-toe,’ caused by maggot of cabbage weevil—remedied by deep digging, stirring of soil, liming; caterpillars of cab-