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ed from England under the name of Early "Wakefield, and 

 has been kept in the immediate locality almost ever since. 

 We have experimented with scores of varieties in that 

 time, and find nothing equal to it. It is quite a shy seed- 

 ing sort, and on several occasions enough seed could not 

 he procured to meet the demands of the growers, and 



then it has repeatedly sold 

 as high as $20 per lb., or 

 quite five times the rate of 

 other sorts. True, we have 

 it quoted in the English seed 

 lists as low as other vari- 

 eties, but repeated trials of 

 almost every kind named in 

 their catalogues, too well 

 told us that the Early Wake- 

 field, as we know it, was no 

 longer procurable in Eng- 

 land. The merit of this variety consists in its large size 

 of head, small outside foliage, aud its uniformity in 

 producing a crop. The heads arc pyramidal, having 

 rather a blunted or rounded peak ; color glaucous 

 green. 



Early York. — This well-known variety is more univer- 

 sally cultivated than all others ; in earlincss it is quite 

 equal to the Wakefield, but is inferior in size, and for mar- 

 ket purposes, with us, would not sell for much more than 

 half the price of the Wakefield. Heads small, roundish- 

 oval ; color pea-green. 



Large York. — Similar to the above, but larger in all its 

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34. — JERSEY WAKEFIELD 

 CABBAGE. 



