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our native cabbage seed with him for the purpose of ex- 

 changing for corn and fodder, and sometimes exchanging 

 a tablespoonful of seed for 10 cents. 



'Way back in the thirties, and even later, a large portion 

 of western North Carolina was known as' Buncombe 

 county, nicknamed "the State of Buncombe." Later be- 

 ing (reduced to different counties, the Buncombe county of 

 to-day embraces a very small part of her original territory. 



The people along the Augusta road, thinking that every- 

 body from North Carolina came from the State of Bun- 

 combe, very naturally called the seeds purchased from 

 wagons "Buncombe Cabbage Seed." 



And now, gentle ceader, you know about as well what 

 the Buncombe cabbage is as the "wooden nutmeg men" 

 know when they put some cabbage seed in a paper and 

 sell them as North Carolina Buncombe cabbage seed. 



The original of this strain of cabbage belongs to the 

 Drumhead family, is of a round shape, and somewhat of an 

 irregular header. Its good keeping qualities are kept up 

 by careful selection of heads for seeding purposes, being 

 grown at an altitude of nearly four thousand feet above 

 sea level, and hybridizing with a certain old-time strain of 

 cabbage about every ten years. 



The Buncombe is used in the Cotton States for all sorts 

 of purposes, but is mostly sown in June and July for fall 

 and winter use. We don't recommend the Buncombe for 

 territory north of the Mason and Dixon line, for the rea- 

 son that they are peculiarly adapted only to the Southern 

 climate; and when girovm too far North, degenerate and 

 become unreliable keepers, just as most Northern strains 

 become poor keepers in the Southland. 



