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Updated: May 1, 2025
The following are foreign varieties that are accepted in this country as standards, and for years have been more or less extensively cultivated: EARLY YORK, EARLY OXHEART, EARLY WINNIGSTADT, RED DUTCH, RED DRUMHEAD. In my experience as a seed dealer, the Sugar Loaf and Oxheart are losing ground in the farming community, the Early Jersey Wakefield having, to a large extent, replaced them.
~Fielderkraut.~ Closely resembles Winnigstadt, with larger and longer heads and stump; requires more room than Winnigstadt. ~Ramsay's Winter Drumhead.~ Closely resembles St. Dennis. I think it is the same. ~Pomeranian Cabbage.~ Heads very long; quite large for a conical heading sort; very symmetrical and hard; color, yellowish-green. It handles well, and I should think would prove a good keeper.
Heads rather hard, medium size; early, and tender. It is said not to stand the heat as well as most sorts. ~Early Empress.~ Cabbages well; heads conical; early. ~Robinson's Champion Ox Drumhead.~ Stump long; heads soft and not very large; wild. ~English Winnigstadt.~ Long-stumped; irregular; not to be compared with French stock. ~Blenheim.~ Early; heads mostly conical; of good size.
The Winnigstadt is remarkably reliable for heading, being not excelled in this respect when the seed has been raised with care, by any cabbage grown. It is a capital sort for early market outside our large cities, where the very early kinds are not so eagerly craved.
They are flattish round, weigh from three to nine pounds when well grown, are very symmetrical in shape, standing apart from the surrounding leaves. They are not solid, though they have the finished appearance that solidity gives; they are remarkably tender, as though blanched, and of very fine flavor. It is among the earliest of drumheads, maturing at about the same time as the Early Winnigstadt.
~Dark Red Pointed.~ Resembles Winnigstadt in shape. About as late as Red Dutch, and not as desirable. ~Bacalan Late.~ In shape resembles Winnigstadt. Grow a little wild. ~Amack.~ A late variety. Heads generally nearly globular and quite hard. Very reliable for heading. ~Bangholm.~ First of all. As early as the earliest, but very small, not as large as Little Pixie. ~Early Enfield Market.~
If the soil be very sandy in character, I would advise that the variety planted be the Winnigstadt, which, in my experience, is unexcelled for making a hard head under almost any conditions, however unpropitious. Should the soil be naturally very wet it should be underdrained, or stump foot will be very likely to appear, which is death to all success.
~Empress.~ Resembles Wyman in size and shape; but the heads are more pointed, and it makes head earlier. Heads well. ~Schlitzer.~ This makes heads mostly shaped like the Winnigstadt, but a third larger. Its mottling of green and purple gives it a striking appearance. Early and very reliable for heading.
It is raised by some for winter use, and where the drumheads are not so successfully raised, I would advise my farmer friends to try the Winnigstadt, as the heads are so hard that they keep without much waste. Have rows two feet apart, and plant twenty inches to two feet apart in the rows.
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