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EXPRESS CABBAGE. 
PREMIER. Next to Wakefield we 
consider this the best first early 
Cabbage. The heads are of 
gooa size, but as it forms very 
small outside leaves it can be 
planted very close, fifteen or 
sixteen inches each way or from 
14,000 to 16,000 to the acre. An 
excellent variety for small gar- 
dens. 10 cts. pkt.; 30 ects. oz.; 
$1.00 14 Ib. ; $3.00 lb. 
EARLY FRENCH OXHEART. 
A favorite market variety. 5c. 
pkt.; 20¢. 0z.; 60c. 14 1b.; $2.00 lb. 
EARLY YORE. A well known 
favorite variety. 5 cts. pkt.; 20 
cts. 0z.; 60 cts. 44 Ib.; $2.00 lb. 
action of the frost, and will be injured in consequence. 
PETER HENDERSON & CO.—VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Cabbage. 
‘}°German, Kopfkohl. 
French, Chou Pomme. 
Spanish, Repollo. 
1 oz. will produce 1,500 
plants; 14 lb. of seed in 
beds to transplant for an 
acre. 
Of the early varieties of Cabbage, in 
latitudes where the thermometer never 
indicates 20 degrees below the freezing 
point, seed may be sown in the open 
border in October, and transplanted on 
the first opening of spring; but in our 
Northern States they must either be 
sown in hot-beds in February, or 
wintered over in cold frames; for 
this purpose the seed is sown from 
the luth to the 20th of September. 
Attention to date is important; if too 
soon the plants might run to seed, and 
if too late they would be toosmall. In 
four or five weeks from the time of sow- 
ing they will be fit to transplant into 
the cold frames. In planting, it is very 
important with Cabbage or Caulifiower, 
that the plant is set down to the first 
leaf, so that the stemis all underground, 
for, if exposed, it will be split by the 
The plants are usually set out from the middle of March to the 
middle of April, in rows about two feet apart, and eighteen inches between the plantsin rows. This earliest crop matures 
in June. 
mature in July and August. 
For second early the early kinds should be sown first week in April and planted out in May. 
The late varieties are usually sown in the early part of May, and the plants are set in July, at 
This crop should 
distances of three feet between the rows, and two feet between the plants. This crop matures September, October or 
November. 
If to be grown for market purposes, for complete details see the new edition of our book, ‘* Gardening for 
Profit.” TF by mail in quantities of 14 Ib. and upward, postage must be added at the rate of 8 cts. per 1b. 
EARLY WARIETIES. 
Henderson's Selected Early Jersey Wakefield. 
Original Stock. 
The merit and characteristics of the Barly Jer- 
sey Wakefield Cabbage are now so well known 
as to hardly need repeating here; still as our Cata- 
logue annually falls into the hands of thousands 
who have not before seen it, we may state that it 
is universally considered the best early Cabbage 
in cultivation. Among its merits may be men- 
tioned its large size of head for an early sort, 
small outside foliage, and its uniformity in pro- 
ducing acrop. The heads are pyramidal in shape, 
having a blunted or rounded peak. This variety 
was first brought into general notice by our Mr. 
Peter Henderson in his book, ‘‘Gardening for 
Profit,’ when it was first published twenty-five 
years ago. (Seecut.) Price, 10c. per pkt.; 35c. 
per oz.; $1.00 per 14 Ib. ; $3.50 per Ib. 
“THE CHARLESTON” or Large Type of Wakefield. 
The Largest and Best 
“FIRST EARLY” CABBAGE. 
For some years past customers have re- 
quested us to procure for them, if possible, 
a Cabbage which had all the characteristics 
of the Early Jersey Wakefield, but of a greater 
size. With this in view we carefully selected 
from one of our best stocks of Wakefield 
a larger type, which is now so fixed in its char- 
acter that we can offer it with confidence to 
those desiring a Cabbage of this kind. As 
will be seen by the cut, this selection will aver- 
age about 50 per cent. larger in size than the old 
type of Wakefield, and is only two or three days 
later. (See cut.) (Stock limited.) Price, 15c. per 
pkt.; 60c. per oz.; $2.00 per 14 lb. ; $7.00 per lb. 
EXPRESS. This new and very early Cabbage, while not as large as the Jersey Wakefield, is four 
or five days earlier, and for a first early variety cannot be excelled. 
It resembles the Premier 
in character and appearance, having solid, compact heads of conical form, of a yellowish green 
color, very desirable. 
ets. 
14 Ib. 3 $2.00 Ib. 
LARGE EARLY SC 
and fall use. 
(See cut.) 10 cts. pkt.; 30 cts. oz.; $1.00 14 lb.; $3.00 Ib. 
SECOND EARLY WARIETIES. 
HENDERSON'S EARLY SUMMER. This peerless Cabbage was named and first 
offered for sale by us in 1874, and every year since we have used the utmost care in 
the selection of heads for seed purposes, and have so improved the variety that 
to-day we are selling a far better strain of the Early Summer than we sent out 
in the year of its introduction. 
days later than the Jersey Wakefield, but being of over double the size, it may 
be classed as the best large early Cabbage. 
35 ets. per oz.; $1.00 per 14 lb. ; $3.50 per Ib. 
HENDERSON'S SUCCESSION. 
pkt. ; 60 cts. oz.; $2.00 14 1b.; $7.00 lb. 
LARGE EARLY YORK. A favorite variety. 
Henderson’s Early Summer is about ten 
(See cut.) Price, 10 cts. per pkt. ; 
(See special description and cut, page 10.) 15 
5 ets. pkt.; 20 ets. oz.; 60 cts. 
EARLY WINNINGSTADT. Asecond early variety, coming in about three weeks 
later than the early varieties. 
ST. JOHN’S DAY EARLY DRUMHBEAD. An early variety, very dwarf, with 
medium sized hard heads; about as early as the Winningstadt. 
25 ets. oz.; 75 ets. 14 lb. ; $2.50 lb. 
HWEINFURT. A large early variety; fine for summer 
5 ets. pkt.; 20 cts. oz.; 60 cts. 14 lb. ; $2.00 lb. 
FILDERKRAUT. This somewhat resembles the well known Winningstadt, but is 
larger in every way and more pointed. 5c. pkt.; 20c. oz.; 60c. 14 1b.; $2.00 lb. 
FOTTLER’S IMPROVED BRUNSWICK. A second early and 
10 cts. pkt.; 25 ets. oz.; 60 cts. 14 Ib.; $2.25 Ib. 
10 cts. pkt.; 25 cts. oz.; T5 cts. 14 lb. ; $2.00 1b. 
10 cts. pkt. ; 
late variety. 
