162 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



VARIETIES OF CABBAGE -EARLY. 



Early Jersey Wakefield, The first notoriety that this 

 variety attained was when we first wrote " Gardening for 

 Profit." That was nearly twenty years ago, and since 

 then it has deservedly taken the- first place as an early 

 market variety. To most growers the merits and char- 

 acteristics of the variety are so well known as to hardly 

 need repeating here, but for the benefit of those who muy 

 not be familiar with it, we would say that it is univers- 



i. 25. EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. 



ally considered the best early Cabbage in cultivation. 

 Among its merits may be mentioned its large size of head, 

 small outside foliage, and its uniformity in producing a 

 crop. The heads are pyramidal in shape, having a 

 blunted or rounded peak. 



A few years after the introduction of the Wakefield 

 Cabbage, we found that it broke into over a dozen sub- 

 varieties, of varying size of leaf and shape of head, and, 

 worse than all, of varying earliness. No matter how 



