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and many others. For storing purposes, Danish Ball Head from 

 imported seed is most extensively used. 



The variety which is best suited to any particular locality must 

 be determined by the factors above noted, the peculiarities of the 

 market, and the character of the soil on which it is to be grown. 



Besides the ordinary types of green cabbage included in the list 

 above, we have the Savoy cabbage with convoluted or blistered 

 leaves. While this grows as large as does the ordinary types, it is 

 usually less productive, but as a rule commands a higher price in 

 the market. The red cabbages do not produce large heads, but 

 in certain markets they command a good price, frequently being 

 quoted two or three times as high per ton as the ordinary forms. 

 During the winter of 1904-1905 the ordinary types of cabbage 

 sold at from $7 to $9 per ton, while the red types brought from 

 $30 to $35 per ton. This difference in price, however, is more 

 apparent than real, for the yield per acre of the red sorts is so 

 much less than that of the green sorts that the returns per acre are 

 pretty nearly equal. There is a smaller percentage of heads from 

 the red cabbage and they are smaller in size and weigh less, the 

 average size of the red being 2\ pounds, while the ordinary field 

 type of cabbage will average from 5 to 5| pounds. 



CARDOON 



Cardoon is a plant of robust growth resembling the bur artichoke. 

 Its edible part is the thickened leafstalks, which are blanched in 

 the same manner as celery. It is little grown in this country, but 

 should find more general favor here, since it can be held for winter 

 use like celery. 



Botany. Botanically, the plant is said by Vilmorin to be a horti- 

 cultural variety of the French, or bur, artichoke, Cynara scolymus L., 

 although it has been given the specific name Cynara cardunculus L. 

 Horticulturally, the chief difference between these two plants is the 

 manner of propagation the artichoke can be propagated from 

 seed, but as a matter of fact all its garden varieties are increased 

 by offshoots, while the cardoon is universally propagated from seed. 



Cultivation. Since the plant is of robust growth, the seeds must 

 be planted in rich earth in hills at least 30 inches apart in each 



