. Cabbages: how to grow them. Cabbage. [from old catalog]. CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 43 and salad uses. It is very difficult to raise seed from this cabbage in this country. I am acquainted with five trials made in as many different years, two of which I made myself, and all were nearly utter failures, the yield when the hardest heads were selected being at about the rate of two great spoonfuls of seed from every twenty cabbages. French seed growers are more suc- cessful, otherwise this seed would have to sell at a far higher figure in the market than any other sort. The Little Pixie, a
. Cabbages: how to grow them. Cabbage. [from old catalog]. CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 43 and salad uses. It is very difficult to raise seed from this cabbage in this country. I am acquainted with five trials made in as many different years, two of which I made myself, and all were nearly utter failures, the yield when the hardest heads were selected being at about the rate of two great spoonfuls of seed from every twenty cabbages. French seed growers are more suc- cessful, otherwise this seed would have to sell at a far higher figure in the market than any other sort. The Little Pixie, a recent introduction, has much to recommend it in quality, reliability for heading, and hardness o f the head; be- ing earlier than Early York, though J somewhat ^^ smaller, it is to be lamented if it does not ultimately sweep away that variety. Among those that deserve to be heartily welcomed and grow in favor, are the Early Ulm Savoy (for en- graving and description of which see under head of Sa- voy,) Early Yanack, (a very early conical heading sort,) Early Nonpareil, (another closely allied vari- ety,)—both these latter being among the earliest,—and the St. Dennis Drumhead, a late, short-stumped sort, setting a large, round, very solid head, as large but harder than Premium Flat Dutch. The leaves are of a bluish green and thicker than those of most varieties 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 John Howard, 1827-1910. [from old catalog]. Salem, Mass. , Observer steam print.
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