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CABBAGES. 



drumhead. Our brethren in Canada think highly of 

 this cabbage, and if we want to try a new drumhead, I 

 will speak a good word for this one. 



Early Schweinfurt or Schweinfurt Quintal 

 is a new but excellent early drumhead ; the heads range 

 in size from ten to eighteen inches in diaueter, varying 



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with the conditions of cultivation more than any other 

 cabbage I am acquainted with. The heads are flattish 

 round, weigh from three to nine pounds when well 

 grown, arc very symmetrical in shape, standing apart 

 from the surrounding leaves. They are not solid, though 

 they have the finished appearance that solidity gives ; 

 they are remarkably tender as though blanched, and of 

 very fine flavor. It is among the earliest of drumheads, 

 maturing at about the same time as the Early Winnig- 

 stadt. As an early drumhead for the family garden it 

 has no superior ; and where the market is near and 

 does not insist that a cabbage head must be haH to be 

 good, it has proved a very profitable market sort. 



