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is fit to cut about the same time as the Early York. The Ox-heart 

 Cabbage may be considered the type of a rather numerous class, to 

 which the following varieties belong : — 



Express Cabbage. — An early, short-stemmed variety, which 



An Etampes Cabbage 



begins to head with the fifth or sixth leaf 



Express Extra Early Cabbage. 



Early Etampes Cabbage. 



on a reduced scale, it has the chief characteristics of that variety 

 with greater earliness. Like the Early Ox-heart and the Early 

 York Cabbage, it may be planted very close.* 



Early Etampes Cabbage. — From several comparative trials 

 which we have made, this variety seems to be, after the preceding 

 one, the earliest of all 

 the headed Cabbages. In 

 most points it resembles 

 the Early Ox-heart, but 

 it has a longer and more 

 conical head, and is also 

 a somewhat bulkier plant. 

 It was raised by M. 

 Bonnemain, Secretary of 

 the Etampes Horticul- 

 tural Society, and is 

 well adapted for spring 

 culture. 



Jersey Wakefield 

 Cabbage. — This variety 

 is well distinguished from 

 the other forms of Ox- 

 heart Cabbages by the 

 yellow tint and very stiff 

 texture of its leaves, and 

 it has a longer stalk than 

 any of the Ox-heart Cabbages properly so called. The outer leaves 

 * Enfield Market, see p. 761. New Varieties, see p. 762. 



Jersey Wakefield Cabbage. 



