VARIETIES. 



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Cyprus. — Said by Wolfner and Weisz, of 

 Vienna, in 1888, to be a beautiful early sort. It is 

 an old Holland variety. 



Danish Snowball.— Offered by Vaughn, in 1891, 

 who says he has tested it for two seasons, and finds 

 it a good, extra early sort. 



Dean's Early Snowball. — This, the oldest, and 

 for a long time the most popular of the Snowball 

 varieties, has now been displaced in this country 

 by Henderson's Snowball and other early sorts. 

 It is often said to be earlier than Early Dwarf 

 Erfurt, but at the Chiswick trials, in 1876, it did 

 not prove to be so. A writer in the Garden, for 

 1880, places it third on the list of early varieties, 

 placing Carter's Extra Early Defiance first, and 

 Veitch's Extra Early second. It appears to be 

 fully as dwarf as the earliest Erfurts, and to have 

 a little larger head. It has been said, even by the 

 introducer, to be the English duplicate of the Early 

 Dwarf Erfurt, but there is no doubt of its distinct- 

 ness from that variety, as was afterwards recog- 

 nized. There was another German variety, how- 

 ever, name not given, at the Chiswick trials referred 

 to, which was reported to be identical with Dean's 

 Snowball. Mr. Dean says: "The Snowball may 

 be told by one unfailing test, viz. : when the heads 

 begin to burst into fiower, they become sufPused 

 with a pretty purple tint." 



