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STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



which is the old Flat Dutch somewhat improved, and of American growth 



Stone Mason Marblehead is represented 

 by fig. 7, and is an excellent winter 

 cabbage. Fig. 8 is the Drumhead Savoy, 

 a very tender, sweet cabbage, very hardy, 

 and improved by a little frost. Figs. 5 

 and 10 are the Fildcrkraut, one of the sol- 



idest and best 



«<« 



v^L.. 



'^^ 



cabbages w e 



are acquainted 



with; always 



heads, and as 



solid as any 



one can wish. 



^ We give two engravings of this tine variety, as the 



(-^^^ifMiK N^^^^P ^^^^ "^^'^^ drawn from a specimen taken from our 



-^^^^^^M^»)^^^^ S"''°"^^*^^ when not fully matured. There are several 



--./ r ^'-''^^^^mmMh^^i}-: varieties of pickling cabbage, but the highest colored 



and best is one we introduced several years since 



from Europe, known as ChaiDpell's Red Pickling 



(fig 9). 

 Collards, or what are now known as CoUards, are merely young cabbage 



plants. The usual plan is to sow the seed in drills about half an inch deep, 



and a foot apart. When these plants are a few inches in height, they are 



pulled. In the south, sowings can be made through the winter every few weeks. 



A variety very popular at the south, and thought to be much better than any. 



of the common cabbages, is called Creole Collards. 



CAULIFLOWEK. 



The most delicate and delicious of all the cabbage family is the Cauliflower. 

 It is more delicate and tender than the cabbage, and therefore requires a more 

 generous treatment. It de- —^^.-^j^-^. 

 lights m a rich soil and ^^ 

 iibundance of water, which 

 it would be well to apply 

 artificially in a dry season. 

 After seeing the splendid 

 cauliflower growing around 

 ErfurtjPrussia, and observ- 

 ing the pains taken in its 

 culture, I did not wonder 

 that we fail in our hot, dry 

 climate. Cauliflower there 

 is grown in low, swampy 

 ground, which is thrown 

 up in wide ridges. The plants are set on the ridges, and between these are 

 ditches of water. Every dry day the water is bailed from these ditches upon 

 the growing plants, and the result is cauliflower of enormous size, compact, and 

 almost as white as snow. The engraving will give a pretty good idea of these 

 cauliflower gardens, and the process of watering. In the ditches water cress is 

 grown, both for cutting and seed. Still, we must say we have never seen or 



