CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 



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Early Oxheart. Heads nearly egg-shaped, small, 

 hard, few waste leaves, stumps short. A little later than 

 Early York. Have the rows two feet apart, and the 

 plants from sixteen to eighteen inches apart in the row. 



Large French Oxheart closely resembles Early 

 Oxheart, but grows to double the size, and is about ten 

 days later ; quality usually good. An excellent kind for 

 large early, but, like all others of the oblong headed 

 cabbages, must in this country be marketed before the 

 drumhead class mature or the crop becomes unsalable. 



Early Sugar Loaf. Heads shaped much like a 

 loaf of sugar standing on its smaller end, resembling, 

 as Burr well says, a head of Cos lettuce in its shape and 

 in the peculiar clasping of the leaves about the head. 

 Heads rather hard, medium size ; early, and tender. It 

 is said not to stand the heat as well as most sorts. 

 Plant, in rows two feet apart, and the plants from eigh- 

 teen to twenty inches in the row. 



Early Winnigstadt. (A German cabbage.) 



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Heads nearly conical in shape having usually a twist of 



