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English, or late, of Stevenson, 1765; the Common round white 
of Mawe, 1778, etc. 
The Egg-Shaped.—tThe type of the “ Sugar-Loaf.” Vilmorin* 
remarks of this variety, the Sugar-Loaf, that, although a very 
old variety, and well known in every country in Europe, it does 
not appear to be extensively grown anywhere. It is called 
chou chicon in France, and dundee kobee in India It is men- 
tioned by name by Townsend, in 1726; by Wheeler,‘ in 1763; 
by Stevenson,’ in 1765; by Mawe,° in 1778, etc. Perhaps the 
large-sided cabbage of Worlidge7 and the long-sided cabbage 
of Quintyne® belong to this division. 
The Elliptic Cabbage.—The type is the “ Early York.” This 
is first mentioned, so far as f can ascertain, by Stevenson5 in 
1765, and he refers to it as if a well-known sort. According to 
Burr, it came originally from Flanders. There are now many 
varieties of this class. 
The Conical Cabbage——The type isthe “ Filderkraut.” This 
_ race is described by Lamarck? in 1783, and, if there is any con- 
stancy between the name and the variety during long periods, is 
found in the Battersea, named by Townsend” in 1726, and a 
whole line of succeeding writers. 
It is certainly very singular that but one of these races of 
cabbage received the notice of the older botanists (excepting 
the one flat-topped given by Chabræus in 1677), as their char- 
acteristics are extremely well marked, and form extreme con- 
trasts between the conical or pointed and the spherical headed. 
We must, hence, believe that they either originated or came into 
use within a recent period. How they came, and whence they 
came, must be decided from a special study, in which the effect 
of hybridization may become a special feature. From the study 
of sports that occasionally appear in the cabbage-garden, the 
_ suggestion may be offered that at least some of these races have 
been derived from crossings with some form of the Chinese cab- 
* Vilmorin, The Veg. Gard., 1885, 110. 
“umd Ind. Handb. of Gard., 1842, 112. 
an, 1726, 26. 
pitas Bot. and Gard. Dict., 1765, 79. 
6 Mawe, Gard., 1778. 7 J. W., Gent. Syst.-Hort., 1683, 202 
ê Quintyne, Comp. Gard., 1693, 189. 
° Don, Gard. Dict., 1831, i. 223. _ % Townsend, Seedsman. 
