CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 43 



and salad uses. It is very difficult to raise seed from 

 this cabbage in this country. I am acquainted with five 

 trials made in as many different years, two of which I 

 made myself, and all were nearly utter failures, the 

 yield when the hardest heads were selected being at 

 about the rate of two great spoonfuls of seed from every 

 twenty cabbages. French seed growers are more suc- 

 cessful, otherwise this seed would have to sell at a far 

 higher figure in the market than any other sort. 



The Little Pixie, a recent introduction, has much 

 to recommend 

 it in quality, 

 reliability for 

 heading, and 

 hardness o f 

 the head ; be- 

 ing earlier 

 than Early 

 York, though 

 somewhat 

 smaller, it is 

 to be lamented if it docs not ultimately sweep away 

 that variety. 



Among those that deserve to be heartily welcomed 

 and grow in favor, are the Early Ulm Savoy (for en- 

 graving and description of which see under head of Sa- 

 voy,) Early Vanack, (a very early conical heading 

 sort,) Early Nonpareil, (another closely allied vari- 

 ety ? ) — both these latter being among the earliest, — and 

 the St. Dennis Drumhead, a late, short-stumped sort, 

 setting a large, round, very solid head, as large but 

 harder than Premium Flat Dutch. The leaves arc of a 

 bluish green and thicker than those of most varieties of 



