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improved Royal Cabbage. This is the most popular variety 
in this State. Heads light green, of large size, and about two weeks 
later than the White Butter. It is very tender and crisp; can be sown 
later in the spring than the foregoing kind, and does not run into seed 
so quickly. 
Brown Dutch Cabbage. A very hardy kind, forms a solid 
head, not so popular as many other kinds. 
Drumhead Cabbage. 
An exeellent spring variety 
forming large heads, the outer 
leaves curled. | 
White Paris Coss. This 
is very popular with the New 
Orleans market-gardeners, as it 
is the favorite with the French 
population. It grows to perfec- 
tion and forms large, fine heads, 
particularly in the spring of the (Ss 
year. Drumhead Cabbage Lettuce. 
Large India Curied. A variety highly esteemed in the North 
for summer planting, but very little cultivated here. 
Perpigman. A fine German variety which forms large light green 
heads and which stands the heat better than the Royal. It is much cul- 
tivated for the market, as it thrives well when sown during the latter 
end of spring. 
improved Large Passion. This is a large Cabbage Lettuce 
from California ; it attains a large size, grows slowly, but heads very 
hard. It does better here during late autumn and winter than in 
summer, as it cannot stand the heat. If sown late in the fall and 
transplanted during winter, it grows to very large heads, hard and firm. 
It is the kind shipped from here in the spring. 
MELON. — Muss or CaNnTELOUPE. 
‘Merton (Fr.), MELONE (Ger.), MELON (Sp.). 
NETTED NUTMEG. EARLY WHITE JAPAN. 
NETTED CITRON. PERSIAN OR CASSABA. 
PINE APPLE. New ORLEANS MARKET. 
Melons requirearich sandy loam. Ifthe ground is notrich enough 
a couple of shovels full of rotted manure should be mixed into each 
hill, which ought to be from five to six feet apart; drop ten or twelve 
seeds, and when the plants have two or three rough leaves, thin out 
to three or four plants. Canteloupes are cultivated very extensively in 
the neighborhood of New Orleans, and the quality is very fine; far 
superior to those raised in the North. Some gardeners plant during 
February and cover with boxes, the same as described for Cucumbers. 
When Melons are ripening too much rain will impair the flavor of the 
fruit. 
