. Cabbages: how to grow them. Cabbage. CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 41 Early Oxheart. Heads nearly egg-shaped, small, hard, few waste leaves ; stump short. A little later than Early York. Have the rows two feet apart, and the plants from sixteen to eighteen inches apart in the row. Large French Oxheart closely resembles Early Oxheart, but grows to double the size, and is about ten days later; quality usually good. An excellent kind for large early, but, like all others of the oblong headed cabbages, must in this country be marketed before the drumhead class mature or the crop l)ecomes unsa
. Cabbages: how to grow them. Cabbage. CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 41 Early Oxheart. Heads nearly egg-shaped, small, hard, few waste leaves ; stump short. A little later than Early York. Have the rows two feet apart, and the plants from sixteen to eighteen inches apart in the row. Large French Oxheart closely resembles Early Oxheart, but grows to double the size, and is about ten days later; quality usually good. An excellent kind for large early, but, like all others of the oblong headed cabbages, must in this country be marketed before the drumhead class mature or the crop l)ecomes unsalable. Early Sugar Loaf. Heads shaped much like a loaf of sugar standing on its smaller end, resembling, as Burr well says, a head of Cos lettuce in its shape and in the peculiar clasping of the leaves about the head. Heads rather hard, medium size; early, and tender. It is said not to stand the heat as well as most sorts. Plant in rows two feet apart, and the plants from eigh- teen to twenty-four inches in the row. Early WinnigStadt. (A German cabbage.). Heads nearly conical in shape haYing ustiaily « twist of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gregory, James J. H. [from old catalog]. New York, Orange Judd company
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