The Home Garden 



CABBAGE 



For first crop of this vegetable, there is no 

 variety superior to the old Early Wakefield, 

 which has held its own against newer candi- 

 dates for favor for the last twenty years or 

 more. It cannot be excelled. 



For a second crop, the Early Summer con- 

 tinues to hold the popular favor. It is a flat- 

 headed cabbage, of excellent flavor, very 

 tender, and fine-grained. The very early 

 cabbages are lacking in the good qualities of 

 the later sorts, and are mainly valuable because 

 they supply the craving for something in the 

 vegetable line early in the season. But such 

 varieties as Early Summer have all the merits 

 of the later sorts, and will be found invaluable 

 in every collection. 



Perhaps the very best late cabbage, and the 

 ideal one for winter use, is the Late Drum- 

 head. It is so compact that a small head will 

 weigh several pounds, and, when cut apart, 

 its leaves will be found so closely folded upon 

 each other that they form a solid mass of tender 

 crispness, juicy, and of superior quality, cook- 

 ing without a suggestion of stringiness. As a 

 keeper it is unexcelled. 



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