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extensively cultivated around St, Brieuc, [on the 

 north coast of France] fi'om which it is exported 

 to Paris, and even to England, is quite hard}, 

 and is well adapted to open-air culture,"' — (Yil- 

 morin). 



The St. Brieuc was described by M. May, in the 

 Revue Horticole, in 1880, as " a hardy, but late 

 variety, inferior in its head to our Paris varieties, 

 and not very generally cultivated/' 



At the New York experiment station in 1886, this 

 variety gave good results. 



Haskell's Favorite. — As grown at the South 

 Dakota experiment station, in 1888, no difference 

 was seen between this and Henderson's Snowball. 

 Seed was sown in hot-bed April 10, the plants set 

 out in well-manured soil. May 2-4, and the first 

 heads cut July 13 — from which time the plants 

 continued to head along through the season. The 

 introducer, George S. Haskell, of Eockford, 111., 

 writes: " The Early Favorite we sell is a variety I 

 found in Holland a number of years ago. It has 

 proved a very sure header in this section of the 

 country, and will yield more than other sorts. It 

 is not of the ' Erfurt family,' but about half way 

 between the Early Paris and Erfurt." 



Henderson's Early Snowball. — A German vari- 

 ety, derived from the Dwarf Erfurt, introduced by 



