VEGETABLE PLANTS. 69 



now be produced at a cost low enough to sat- 

 isfy any one, there no longer remains even this 

 poor excuse for importing. 



The Late Drumhead is quite a popular late 

 variety. It is later than the Flat Diitch, and 

 usually not so reliable for heading. 



We this season planted forty-five early and 

 late varieties, in order to ascertain if there were 

 any better than those of which we have 

 spoken. A casual observer would not suspect 

 that the field contained more than a half dozen 

 varieties. Among the early varieties, the Little 

 Pixie, Early Wyman, Cannon-ball, Early 

 Flat Dutch, and Schweinfurth Quintal, ap- 

 peared to possess more real merit than any 

 others, except those named on pages 19 and 

 20. The above rank in earliness and size 

 about in the order named. The Little Pixie 

 is earlier even than the old Early York. The 

 heads are small, but very hard. An admirable 

 first early variety. The Early Wyman some- 

 what resembles the Wakefield. It grows 

 rather larger, and may perhaps be an improve- 

 ment on that well-known variety. The Can- 

 non-ball produces what its name indicates, a 

 very hard, round head, probably harder than 

 any other variety. 



