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crops. Hardly any other variety can approach 

 the Surehead in fine quality and uniform relia- 

 bility in forming solid, firm heads, of good size, 

 even in unfavorable seasons. Burpee's Surehead 

 Cabbage is the result of hybridizing and many 

 years' continued selection by a most experienced 

 market gardener, who, until we obtained the stock, 

 eleven years since, had never supplied any seeds- 

 man. It produces large, round, flattened heads, 

 of the Flat Dutch type, and is remarkable for its 

 certainty to head ; it is all head, and always sure 

 to head. The heads are remarkably uniform, very 

 hard, firm, and fine in texture, and ordinarily 

 weigh from ten to fifteen pounds each. It is very 

 sweet flavored, has scarcely any loose leaves, keeps 

 well, is good for shipping, and is just the variety 

 and quality to suit market gardeners, farmers and 

 all lovers of good cabbage. 



DANISH BALL HEAD. 



While in Denmark in the summer of 1886, we 

 discovered a variety of cabbage called, from the 

 shape of the heads, Ball Head, which the Danes 

 prize so highly that they grow it almost exclu- 

 sively for winter cabbage, and annually export 

 large quantities. It has been selected and per- 

 fected for more than fifty years by the Danish 

 gardeners. The heads are hard as they can be, 

 round, of medium size, of extra choice quality, 

 very fine grained, and remarkably good keepers. 



