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Heads are not very hard; but, when cooked, are just about as tender and rich-flavored as the Savoy. Promises to be an excellent sort for family use. ~Rothelburg.~ An early sure heading variety of the Drumhead class. Heads of medium size; resembling in shape Deep Head. ~Sure Head.~ A strain of Flat Dutch. A late variety; heads deeper than Fottler, but with me not so reliable.
Heads of good size, but rather coarser than the Deep Head. ~Chase's Excelsior.~ A second early; much like Fottler; heads finely. ~Bloomsdale Early Market.~ With me this is not as good a variety as Wakefield. ~Berkshire Beauty.~ There appear to be fine possibilities in this cabbage, which have not yet been developed into uniformity.
Irregular in length of stump. ~Early Paris.~ Closely resembles Wakefield. ~Very Early Etampes.~ Earlier than Wakefield. Shape partakes of both Oxheart and Wakefield. ~Early Mohawk.~ Light green in color; a good header, but not so hard heading as Fottler. Appears to have a little of the Savoy cross in it. ~Sure Head.~ A late variety of the Dutch class; reliable for heading; stump rather long.
Within a few years I have known the range of price for the Stone Mason or Fottler cabbage, equal in size and quality, to be from $3 to $17 per hundred; for the Marblehead Mammoth from $6 to $25 per hundred. Cabbages brought to market in the spring are usually sold by weight or by the barrel, at from $1 to $4 per hundred pounds.
~Excelsior.~ A variety which is of the Fottler class, but makes smaller sized heads. ~Louisville Drumhead.~ Of the flat Dutch type; nearly as early as Early Summer. ~Early Advance.~ Of the Wakefield type. With me it is full as early as Wakefield, and considerably larger. Rather coarser in structure. ~Market Garden.~ Of the Fottler class; very reliable for heading.
~Early Deep-Head Cabbage.~ This is a valuable improvement on the Fottler made by years of careful selection and high cultivation by Mr. Alley of Marblehead, a famous cabbage grower, who, as the name indicates, has produced a deeper, rounder heading variety than the original Fottler, thus making what that was not, an excellent sort for winter and spring marketing.
I know, through my correspondence, that the Mammoth has done well as far South as Louisiana and Cuba, and the Fottler, in many sections of the South, has given great satisfaction. ~Fottler's Early Drumhead.~ Several years ago a Boston seedsman imported a lot of cabbage seed from Europe, under the name of Early Brunswick Short Stemmed. It proved to be a large heading and very early Drumhead.
~Shillings Queen.~ Early; heads conical; stumps long. ~Carter's Superfine Early Dwarf.~ Surpasses in earliness and hardness of head. Closely allied to Little Pixie. ~Enfield Market Improved.~ Most of the heads were flat; rather wild; not to be compared with Fottler. ~Kemp's Incomparable.~ Long-headed; heads, when mature, do not appear to burst as readily as with most of the conical class.
It comes in as early as some strains of Fottler, and a little earlier than others. A capital sort to succeed the Early Summer. The heads being very thick through, and nearly round, make it an excellent sort to carry through the winter, as it "peels" well, as cabbage-growers say. Ten inches in diameter, in size it is just about right for profitable marketing.
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