Best Varieties of Cabbage for the South 65 



Prize Head and Late Flat Butch are all good varie- 

 ties. The Charleston Wakefield is the most popular early 

 variety grown in the South. This is a conical -headed 

 variety but less pointed, larger, and produces a more 

 compact head than the Early Jersey Wakefield, Early 

 Etampes, Express or York, which are only a few days 

 earlier. It is excellent for both spring and fall planting. 

 Transplanted the first of February, it gives hard heads 

 in very early spring. Transplanted the last of August, 

 it heads well before severe freezing weather, which rarely 

 occurs before the last of November in the Middle South. 

 Early Summer, Surehead and Succession follow the Wake- 

 field in late spring and summer, while the Banish Ball 

 Head, Lupton, Flat Butch, Brumhead and others chal- 

 lenge the attention of the grower in the alpine or 

 mountain regions for late fall crop. These are trans- 

 planted in June or July in the mountain vallej^s, which 

 are especially adapted to this crop, and mammoth heads 

 are produced. For winter supply, the solid -headed cab- 

 bages are taken up in November in the northern part of 

 the South, the roots and stalks buried in trenches on well- 

 drained soil, northern exposure preferred, the heads 

 sheltered from rain until cold weather threatens, when 

 additional protection is needed. I have kept them in 

 perfect condition by packing the heads cut from the 

 stalks and inverted in a shallow trench, placing a row of 

 heads on each side and breaking the joint with a third 

 row also inverted. Sufficient soil was then heaped over 

 the triple row of heads to shed the water and prevent 

 freezing. They have been protected also where they grow 

 by opening a furrow with the turn -plow bar side next to 



