52 CABBAGE. 



under the grower's name beyond the immediate 

 locality where the selection of a given type was made, 

 and which bears the grower's name. 



The growers of many of these strains which 

 have a local reputation were painstaking men; they 

 were also men of keen discrimination. They could 

 detect slight variations in habit of growth, as regards 

 size and solidity of head, vigor of constitution, which 

 would make it valuable for its keeping qualities, or 

 for a tendency to produce large heads with but few 

 outer leaves. All of these characteristics were of 

 importance to those who grew cabbage on a larf'e 

 scale for market purposes. These men becan.e 

 famous, in their respective localities, as seed growers, 

 and annually saved and sold at an enormous price 

 large quantities of seed. There are many instances 

 where men made more money from the product of 

 one-quarter of an acre of cabbage, grown for seed, 

 than from all the products of a hundred-acre farm, 

 because of the high price they obtained for their seed. 



Among the number was a Mr. Vandergaw, 

 whose selection was generally known as the Vander- 

 gaw cabbage. This particular t3rpe was never known 

 to the trade until the writer obtained a stock to grow 

 for seed purposes, for the trade. Its usefulness as a 

 variety for early, intermediate and late planting was 

 soon recognized, and James J. H. Gregory imme- 

 diately secured the whole stock, which he sent out 

 as a novelty, under the name of ''All Seasons." The 

 following year W. Atlee Burpee procured seeds from 

 Mr. Vandergaw, without the slightest idea that it 

 was the parent of the "All Seasons," and grew a 

 stock of seed, which he sent out as a "novelty" under 

 the name of "The Vandergaw." 



