CABBAGES AXD CAULIFLOWERS. 



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stand hot weather better than most other sorts. 

 The heads are of good size, round, flattened on 



the top, but not so thick through as Burpee's 

 Sure-head. 



BURPEE'S SHORT-STEM DRUMHEAD. 



The New Short-stem Drumhead has a very 

 short stem and grows very compactly — the leaves 

 all turning in to form the head, with very few 

 loose leaves — thus allowing the plants to be set 

 close together. The heads are very large, extra 

 hard, solid, round, flattened on the top ; they grow 

 very uniform in size and shape, and present the 

 handsome appearance well depicted in the above 

 illustration. The heads frequently attain twenty 

 or thirty pounds in weight, and are always of the 

 finest quality. For reliability of heading this 



