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Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead. This is the 

 largest of the cabbage family, having sometimes been 

 grown to weigh over sixty pounds to the plant. It orig- 



inated in Marblehead, Massachusetts, being produced 

 by Mr. Alley, probably from the Mason, by years of 

 high cultivation and careful selection of seed stock. I 

 introduced this cabbage and the Stone Mason to the 

 general public many years ago, and it has been pretty 

 thoroughly disseminated throughout the United States. 

 Heads varying in shape between hemispherical and 

 spherical, with but few waste leaves surrounding them; 

 size very large, varying from fifteen to twenty inches in 

 diameter, and in some specimens they have grown to 

 the extraordinary dimensions of twenty-four inches. In 

 good soil and with the highest culture this variety has 

 attained an average weight of thirty pounds by the acre. 

 Quality when well grown remarkably sweet and tender, 

 as would be inferred from the rapidity of its growth. 

 Cultivate in rows four feet apart, and allow four feet be- 

 tween the plants in the rows. Sixty tons of this variety 

 have been raised from a single acre. 



