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it which exhibit various degrees of difference in size and earliness, 

 while retaining all the main characteristics of the variety just 

 described. One of the most highly esteemed of these is the 



Blumenthaler, a rather large and 

 late kind. 



Long-headed Savoy Cab- 

 bage. Stem of medium length, 

 about one-half or two-thirds the 

 length of the head, which is 

 oblong in shape, almost like 

 that of the Sugar-loaf Cabbage, 

 light green in colour, and not 

 very compact ; outer leaves 

 rather narrow, elongated, erect, 

 rather broadly crimped, and 

 somewhat glaucous green. A 



Long-headed Savoy Cabbage moderately early variety, of 

 (A natural size). good quality, and yielding a 



fair crop, notwithstanding the 



smallish size of the plants. It heads well in the latter end of 

 autumn, so that it can be sown to advantage rather late in the 

 season. 



Large Aubervilliers Savoy Cabbage. A variety derived from 

 the Vertus Savoy, but now distinct owing to a long selection. 

 Years ago the Vertus Savoy came into the market scarcely before 

 the end of October, until some market-gardeners, with a view to its 

 profitable sale at an earlier date, were careful to mark for seed- 

 ing purposes those plants which headed quickest, and hence the 

 decidedly earlier strain which has been obtained. The new variety 

 is not quite so hardy, 

 nor does it keep so long 

 as the Vertus Savoy, 

 but it has a shorter 

 stem, a more flattened 

 head, and less glaucous 

 light green leaves. 



Large Vertus 

 Drumhead Savoy Cab- 

 bage. Stem 6 to 8 in. 

 high, stout, bearing a 

 broad, thick, compact 

 head, which is flat on 

 the top, sometimes 

 tinged with a wine-lees-red, and almost perfectly smooth, being 

 only partially crimped at the edges of the leaves ; outer leaves 

 rather numerous, large, broad, stiff, well spread out, rather dark 



Large Auberviliiers Savoy Cabbage. 



