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other leading seedsmen, however, in regard to the wisdom and 

 propriety of their nomenclature, especially their methods of 

 multiplying names by adding their own for the sake of distin- 

 guishing strains. 



EARLY VARIETIES. 



Early Wakefield. In this we have j^et the leading early 

 market variety, making solid, conical heads, with few loose outer 

 leaves. For both home and market garden it has no superior as 

 an early sort. Seed of this is grown quite extensively on Long 

 Island, and I have 

 always had excellent 

 success with it. 



Earliest Etampes 

 Much spoken of as a 

 good market variety, 

 earlier than the preced- 

 ing, while it is decidedly 

 reliable. I have never 

 been able to discover 





Surehead. 



Flat Dutch. 



more than a slight difference in 

 earliness between the two kinds (in 

 favor of the Etampes), nor other 

 points of merit above those of the 

 best strains of Wakefield. 



Early Express. Another early 

 variety of the Wakefield type, intro- 

 duced as considerably earlier than 

 that variety, and profitable for early 

 market. Said to produce heads in 



70 to 75 days from time of sowing seed. 



Early York, and Early French Oxheart, being extremely 



early, were formerly the leading sorts for market ; but since their 



heads are little more than loose bunches of leaves, they have 



deservedly lost favor with the growers. 



INTERMEDIATE VARIETIES. 



Early Winningstadt should be planted by all who have 

 usually but indifferent success with other varieties. As a sure 

 header, even under adverse circumstances, it has no peer ; and in 

 spite of its earliness, it forms large cone-shaped heads, which are 

 of good quality. It is emphatically the home grower's and the 



