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The 
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Packet, 20 cents; 3 packets, 50 cents; 7 packets, $1.00; 
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See Illustration from Nature on 
WHAT MR. LUPTON HAS TO SAY: 
“In the fall of 1888 while rogueing a field of Excelsior Flat Dutch, I 
noticed a fully developed Cabbage which especially attracted my atten- 
tion, because of its possession of so many desirable features which our 
experience has taught us are very hard ofattainment. In point of ma- 
turity this plant was severa] days in advance of any we were able to 
find in the same field, while it showed no diminution in size. Its growth 
was particularly strong and vigorous; its color, a dark bluish green, in- 
dicated robust constitution and healthy development. ‘The leaves were 
broad and well-filled out to their juncture with stem, showing no dis- 
position to the petioled form. The stem was short, but strong under 
the head, tapering sharply to the point of entering the ground. The 
head was a perfect specimen, thick and flat, the outer leaves covering 
it well across the centre, and while it was large, it had attained size 
without the attendant features of coarseness, which is quite common 
among all our main crop cabbages, and comes of too strong develop- 
ment of the veins and ribs. Here certainly was avery desirable cab- 
bage, and the question at once arose, can these good features be perpet- 
uated in future generations and thereby become valuable? With the 
feeling that it was at least worth the effort, we laid this cabbage care- 
fully to one side, and the following summer we grew the seed from this 


single plant, taking care that it should be ata sufficient distance from 
eedsmen’s catalogues. 
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for the best four heads of Lupton raised during ’94. 
best and most perfect head sent me on or before October 15th, ’94. 
$75.00 for the second best; $50.00 for the third best; and $25.00 for the next best. 
Every Cabbage grower in America should enter this competition with a will, and I promise 
that the finest Cabbage ever raised in this country will be the result of their efforts. 
URING the last ten years I have, without any ex- 
aggeration, tested at least three hundred different 
varieties of large late cabbage, every one of which 
was claimed by the originator to be something superior 
to anything offered. The result, however, of all these 
trials has been fully demonstrated in my catalogue each 
year by the high endorsement I have always given Sure- 
head, for never until the last year or two have I founda 
cabbage that would anywheres near approach it. After 
seventeen years time, however, I am particularly proud 
of the fact that I am able to introduce to my friends and 
the American gardening public generally a thorough- 
bred late cabbage that will in every way sur- 
pass every sort heretofore grown. Thorough- 
bred is the very best word to use in describing the New 
Lupton Cabbage. It has demonstrated itself to be the 
truest to type; most regular in growth, etc., not only in 
small test trials, but in field trials embracing every 
known variety of cabbage. Mr. Lupton, the introducer 
of this cabbage is probably the largest individual pro- 
ducer of Cabbage seed in the world. For years he has 
devoted himself entirely to this business, and annually 
puts in thousands of acres op the eastern end of Long 
Island, which he grows on contract for the largest 
houses in the American Seed trade. His reputation for 
reliability and trustworthiness has never been question- 
ed, and during our acquaintance of nearly fifteen years, 
during which time he has grown for me thousands and 
thousands of pounds of Cabbage seed, I have never in 
all this time received a serious complaint from any seed 
ne has ever sent me, and such is the general verdict of 
other seedsmen for whom he grows cabbage seed. With 
such a record, I think Mr. Lupton should know exactly 
what good cabbage is, and he thinks this new cabbage 
so good, that not only has he given me the privilege of 
introducing, but he has also given me the privi- 
lege of naming it after himself. Now, certainly 
Mr. Lupton could not afford to have his name attached 
to any cabbage that was not exceptionally good, and 
this one fact should be a sufficient recommendation for 
every market gardener to give the New Lupton a trial. 
In describing this new variety, I can do no better than 
2 quote verbatim from Mr. Lupton’s description, which 
+ gives the history and good points of his new cabbage: 
all others so as to mgke hybridization an impossibility. From this 
seed we madea second’ selection, this time taking four perfect speci- 
mens and growing the seed as before; this seed was again planted, and 
from it was secured a field of as fine cabbage as the most critical gar- 
dener would care to look upon. In this field, which is the third genera- 
tion from the original plant, we feel that our object has been secured, 
and that hereafter the stock will require only such care and attention 
as all stocks require to make them especially desirable to the farming 
and gardening world. Every practical seedsman knows that the strong 
growing late or main crop cabbages have never been bred to that per- 
fection of type which we have attained in the second early or interme- 
diate sorts. In other words, the tendency to sport or develop undesir- 
able types, is more persistant in the cabbages of the strongest growth. 
In this new cabbage we feel that we have secured the perfection of type, 
and reliability of heading which are the most desirable features of all 
cabbages, and without the sacrifice of the strong constitution which 
insures vigorous growth and enables the plant to resist unfavorable 
conditions. In point of maturity it is about a week in advance of the 
various strains of Late Flat Dutch. It matures very evenly, is reliable 
and uniform about heading, is an excellent keeper, and for all pur- 
poses of the farmer or market gardener, we believe it will be found the 
best late main crop cabbage.” 
After reading the above, I wish to ask my customers if it is not a little different from the descriptions usually found in 
I have not altered one word of this description ; I made up my mind to let it go, just as Mr. Lupton 
Now I wish to impress the fact upon my friends and cus- 
omers that I make the prediction (as I did three years ago in regard to the Freeman Potato, and six years agoin regard to 
he Prizetaker Onion) that in five years time the Lupton Cabbage will be at the head of its class, that it will 
e listed in every American catalogue, and that it will be considered by every unprejudiced party, the beau ideal of 
In describing a variety, I have seldom made such strong statements, but every time I have, it has been 
The Freeman is three years old, last year it was listed in a few cat- 
logues, in this, its fourth year, almost every catalogue in America will have something to say in regard to the Freeman Po- 
Prizetaker Onion was first introduced by me in ’88, for three years it was to be found only in my catalogue; last year, 
n ’93, six years after it was first introduced by me, itwas a leading specialty in half a hundred prominent 
The same thing will hold true of the Lupton Cabbage. 
d the Freeman the first year have had many thousand per cent. return on their investment. 
riends who planted the Prizetaker five or six years ago, have been making money raising these onions, five years or more 
Plant the Lupton this year and be three or four years ahead of 
our friends in having the best cabbage ever put out in America. 
Those of my friends who plant- 
Those of my market gardener 
Packet, 20 cts.; } ounce, 60 cts.: ounce, 81.00. 
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Once again I wish to call your attention to the 

life-like illustration of this variety on last page of 
the cover of this book. 
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