Putting the seeds in the hot frame gives them a good start. Now we'll set
out the cabbage plants, and you may both help."
Daddy Blake gave Hal and Mab each a small handful of the little cabbage
plants, some of which had two and others three light green leaves on.
There were also small roofs, with a little wet dirt clinging to them, from
where they had been pulled out of their early home in which they first
grew.
"Oh, Hal! That isn't the way to do it!" cried Daddy Blake, when he had
watched his little boy walking along the cabbage row for a while, dropping
the plants, the roots of which were afterward to be covered with the brown
earth.
"Why not?" Hal asked.
"Because you must only drop ONE plant in a place. You are letting two and
three fall at once. You mustn't make a bouquet of them," and his father
laughed. "Only one cabbage plant in a spot."
"Am I doing it right?" asked Mab, who was on the other side of the cabbage
plot.
"Well, not exactly. Hal dropped his too close together and yours are too
far apart. The cabbage plants ought to be about two and a half feet
apart, in rows and the rows should be separate one from the other by about
twenty inches.
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