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exclusive of the outer foliage, will weigh nine pounds. 

 Quality exceedingly sweet, tender, and rich. A profitable 

 variety for market-purposes ; the gross returns per acre in 

 the vicinity of Boston, Mass., often reaching from two hun- 

 dred dollars to three hundred and fifty. 



The Mason, Stone-mason, and the Marblehead Mammoth, 

 severally originated from a package of seeds received from 

 England, under the name of the " Scotch Drumhead," by 

 Mr. John M. Ives of Salem, Mass. 



This variety, though often found upon the cata- Vanack. 

 logues of our seedsmen, has not been extensively Lind ' 

 grown in this country, and perhaps is really but little 

 known. 



The head is somewhat irregular in shape, broad at the base, 

 and terminates in a sharp point. The exterior leaves are 

 large, spreading, deep green, and strongly veined. 



It is tender in texture, sweet and delicate in flavor, cab- 

 bages early and uniformly, and when kept through the 

 winter, and reset in spring, pushes abundant and fine sprouts, 

 forming excellent early cole worts, or greens. Lindley pro- 

 nounces its quality inferior to none of the best cabbages. 



Heads small, but solid, and uniform in Waite's New 

 shape. It has little of the coarseness com- Ho*Mag. 

 mon to the larger varieties, and the flavor is 

 superior. 



One of the finest early cabbages, and one of the best 

 sorts for th market. It occupies but little space compared 

 with some of the older kinds, and a large number of plants 

 may be grown upon a small piece of ground. 



This is a German variety, somewhat simi- Winnigstadt. 



,*, r\ -t i 11 POINTED HEAD. 



lar to the Ox-heart, but more regularly 

 conical. Head broad at the base, and tapering symmetri- 

 cally to a point, solid, and of the size of the Ox-heart ; 



