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Mammoth Red Rock. This is the largest and hardest 

 heading red cabbage in cultivation. Successful Long Island 

 market gardeners will raise no other kind of red cabbage, for 

 they consider this the best of all. The heads frequently average 

 12 pounds each, and it is a very sure cropper. 



Stone Mason, much grown in New England States, makes 

 very solid heads, and is quite popular at the north. 



Large Late American Drumhead, with its various strains 

 (Louisville Drumhead, Short-Stemmed Drumhead, etc.), is a late 

 sort with very solid heads of good quality. Decidedly a good 

 variety, both for market and home use. 



Felderkraut. — A German variety, especially desirable in 

 making krout; heads large, hard and solid. 



Drumhead Savoy. — Few cabbages have given us as much 

 satisfaction in the home garden as the Savoys. In quality they 

 are far ahead of the common varieties, and not so very inferior 

 even to the cauliflowers. The Drumhead Savoy, in addition, can 

 be depended upon to yield large, solid heads under fairly favor- 

 able conditions, and also stands high as a winter keeper. It 

 deserves to be more generally planted. 



Marblehead Mammoth is undoubtedly the largest of all 

 our cabbages, and makes firm heads of good quality ; but needs 

 high culture and the entire season to come to perfection. It is 

 especially recommended for warmer latitudes. 



CARDOON. 



Cynara Cardujicidus. German, Spanische Artischoke ; 

 French, Car don ; Spanish, Cardo. Cardoon is one of the 

 many vegetables quite commonly grown on 

 the Continent of Europe, especially in 

 France, yet almost entirely unknown to 

 American cultivators. Neither is there any 

 prospect for its coming in general use. I 

 confess I have not yet seen it in a single 

 American kitchen garden. It belongs to 

 the same species as the Artichoke. Its leaf- 

 stalks, blanched like celery, are used for 

 salads, in soups, etc. Sow seed in early 

 spring, in very rich, and moist soil, having 

 rows 3 feet apart; then thin the plants to 

 l^ or 2 feet apart in the rows. Give good '^^ 

 cultivation, and in autumn tie up the leaves 

 with matting or bands of straw or hay, 

 covering them up entirely almost to the tips of leaves, then earth 

 up like celery. In four or five weeks the hearts will be blanched 

 enough for use. Take up before frost and store like celery. 

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Cardoon. 



