162 THE SEED-GROWER. 



spotted and faintly tinged in places with brown; 70 

 days. 



Tennis Ball, Black Seeded, or All Heart, All Year 

 Round, Baltimore Cabbage, Black Seeded Summer, 

 Bloomsdale Butter, Eclipse, Everlasting, Hard Head, 

 Long Island Winter, Market Gardener's Private Stock, 

 Ninety and Nine, Salamander, Satisfaction, Sensation, 

 Twentieth Century, White Peach. Of European origin ; 

 known in America for more than half a century. 

 Medium sized, very hard head, leaves broad, much 

 blistered and crumpled, borders plain; color light green, 

 unspotted, 75 days. 



Tennis Ball, White Seeded, or Boston Market, Ideal. 

 Like the preceding, an old sort. Small, very hard 

 head; leaves broad, blistered and crumpled, borders 

 plain; color medium green, sometimes brownish in 

 large areas, but never distinctly spotted; 60 days. 



Wheeler's Tom Thumb, or Landredth's Forcing. 

 Seed blackish; small, hard head; leaves broad, much 

 blistered and crumpled, borders undulate; color dark 

 green, unspotted with brown; 70 days. 



Yellow-Seeded Perpignan, or Bloomsdale Early 

 Summer, Champion, Creole, Reliable, Stubborn Header, 

 Waite's Summer Cabbage. Seed yellowish; medium- 

 sized, very compact head; leaves broad, much blistered 

 and crumpled, borders plain; 80 days. 



Cut or Loose-leaved Varieties. Black-Seeded 

 Simpson, or Constitution, Earliest of All, Earliest Forc- 

 ing, First Early. Seed blackish; crisp, broad leaves, 

 frilled borders; color very light green, unspotted; 80 

 days. 



Boston Curled. Seed blackish; crisp, broad leaves, 

 excessively frilled borders; color medium-green, un- 

 spotted; 70 days. 



