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Horitucultural guide : spring 1892 . ery sectioQ of the country, are alone sufficient proof ofits great value. The demand for seed of it, this season, is now tarahead of our most sanguine hopes. THE ECLIPSE is the Earliest of all large Cabbages, and while itis considerably larger than Hendersons Early Summer, it is fully two ,weeks earlier than that variety. The heads grow very uniform insize, with few loose leaves, remarkably solid, very tender and of thefinest quality. The veins and midribs of the leaves are also verymuch smaller than other varieties. Color dark green. The EcLiPbEis all that
Horitucultural guide : spring 1892 . ery sectioQ of the country, are alone sufficient proof ofits great value. The demand for seed of it, this season, is now tarahead of our most sanguine hopes. THE ECLIPSE is the Earliest of all large Cabbages, and while itis considerably larger than Hendersons Early Summer, it is fully two ,weeks earlier than that variety. The heads grow very uniform insize, with few loose leaves, remarkably solid, very tender and of thefinest quality. The veins and midribs of the leaves are also verymuch smaller than other varieties. Color dark green. The EcLiPbEis all that can be desired as an early Cabbage, and it has thefurther merit of being a valuable sort for main crop. The stem is very short. That, coupled with the compacthabit of its growth, makes it valuable, inasmuch as manymore Cabbages can be planted,oq an ac!re than ofmo^. , sorts. l-i. ; - 1 Many large growers w^ho know say: The three best Cabbages for the Market Gardener are CURRIES EARLY MARKET, ECLIPSE and LONG CURRIES EARLY MARKET CABBAGE. ^.^-^ Now Kecognized as the Best AUround Early Cabbage in Cultivation yCp^..\^^ ( Market gardeners everywhere who have grown it are unanimous in pronouncing it a most desirable variety, very early, of excellent quality,tender and very mild in flavor when cooked. Comparing it with Wake-field, we find it earlier than that standard sort, besides having a muchlarger and firmer head, with few loose outside leaves. In fact, inweight it is fully equal to many of the second early varieties, andmay, with advantage, be grown throughout the entire form the head is conical, like all early varieties. Market gardeners in this section now grow this variety astheir standard extra-early sort, and judging from the manyflattering testimonials we every year receive from every sectionof the country where we have introduced it, it bids fair to be-come universally popular, and be the accepted extra-early Cab-bage for market and famil
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