. Burpee's novelties for 1890. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. NEW PEERLESS EARLY CABBAGE. PEERLESS EARLY. This cabbage is selected from a cross made by a Massachusetts market gardener, who claims it to be superior to Henderson's Early Summer, and says of it: " Nearly equaling Jersey Wakefield in earliness, and forming very much larger heads (often weighing more than twelve pounds apiece). Ver>' round and uniform in shape and general appearance, fine grained, small, .short st
. Burpee's novelties for 1890. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. NEW PEERLESS EARLY CABBAGE. PEERLESS EARLY. This cabbage is selected from a cross made by a Massachusetts market gardener, who claims it to be superior to Henderson's Early Summer, and says of it: " Nearly equaling Jersey Wakefield in earliness, and forming very much larger heads (often weighing more than twelve pounds apiece). Ver>' round and uniform in shape and general appearance, fine grained, small, .short stump, with few loose leaves, thus allowing them to be set out nearer together : it also has the very valuable quality of remaining, after fully ma- tured, without cracking or bursting, much longer than any ; Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts.; B) $; per ft) $3 00. DANISH BALL-HEAD. While in Denmark in x886, we discovered a variety of called, from the shape of the heads, Ball-Head, which the Danes prize so highly that they grow it almost exclu- sively for winter cabb.^ge, and annually export 1 irge quantities. It has been selected for than fifty years by the Danish gardeners. more - The heads are hard, round, of good marketable size, fine grained, and good keepers. PerpVr t - â â ? - = cts.⢠perIb$ BURPEE'S SUPERIOR LARGE LATE FLAT DUTCH CABBAGE. ^U?T??S'^ SUPERIOR LARGE LATE FLAT iJUlL,hl. -A. low-growing varietv : heads large, bluish- green, round, solid, broad and flat cn top; of finequality Uur strain of this cabbage has been carefully selected, and can be recommended to market gardeners as next best to Burpee's Sureluad and Short-sinn DnimJuad. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 20 cts.; i.; R) 60 cts.; per B) $;». Large Late Drumhead. This is similar in most respects to the Late Flat Dutch, but the heads are more rounded on top ; It is also generally longer in stem. For this and other reasons, we recommend to gardeners either Bnrptt's ^hort-stem or
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