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procured for less money than American-grown 

 seeds. So a cheap article is produced to meet 

 the demand, but in the end it is found to be 

 the dearest. If seed stock from some of our 

 standard varieties should be taken to Europe 

 and there carefully developed, then the finest 

 heads selected and seeds again grown from 

 them and brought back to our country, we be- 

 lieve they would produce even finer heads than 

 the original cabbages here. We base these 

 conclusions upon similar experiments which 

 we have made by sending to Washington Ter- 

 ritory, where the climate, in the vicinity of 

 Puget Sound, more nearly resembles that of 

 England than our Middle States. Still we be- 

 lieve that if propagated in these warm and 

 moist lacalities for a long series of years, the 

 tendency would be to ripen later and later each 

 succeeding year, until they would become un- 

 fitted for our short seasons, as it is a well- 

 known fact that- vegetables of any kind will 

 ripen sooner when the seeds are procured from 

 far north than south of the locality in which 

 they are planted. 



French grown cabbage seeds seem to do 

 much better with us than English, but as 

 American seeds are superior to either and can 



