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are pale glaucous green, rounded in shape, very faintly undulated at 

 the edges, and remarkably firm and stiff ; those which immediatel)' 

 surround the head are often hollowed like a spoon. The head 

 itself, a very pale green, is short, blunt, and conical, and often 

 tinged with red on the side exposed to the sun. This is an early 

 and productive variety, and the head keeps firm for a considerable 

 length of time — an important advantage when it is grown as a 

 field crop. 



Early Paris Market Cabbage {Chou Cceur-de-bceuj Moyen). — 

 An early variety; raised by the Paris market gardeners. The 

 head is not quite so high as that of the Etampes Cabbage, but is 

 rounder and broader at the base. The head develops very rapidly 

 as soon as it has begun to form, yielding the heaviest crop in the 

 shortest time. An excellent substitute for the Enfield Market 

 Cabbage, to which it is altogether superior. 



Early Paris Market Cabbage. Prince's Nonpareil Cabbage, 



The Chou Prefin de Boulogne is a sub-variety of the Ox-heart, 

 remarkable for its earliness, and easily distinguished by its light 

 colour and the broadness of the ribs, which spread like a fan 

 over the whole width of the leaf The Early Louviers Cabbage, 

 another sub-variety of the Ox-heart, very much resembles the 

 Etampes Cabbage, but it is not so early, and has a somewhat 

 shorter head. The Chou Prompt de Saint-Malo, which is a little 

 larger, and has broader leaves and a rather shorter and broader 

 head than the foregoing kinds, has, like them, been advantageously 

 superseded by the Very Early Etampes variety. 



Prince's Nonpareil or Barnes' Early Dwarf Cabbage.— Inter- 

 mediate between the Ox-heart and the Tourlaville varieties comes 

 one which is very extensively grown in England under the name of 

 *' Nonpareil." This is an early kind, with a rather long but blunt 

 conical head, and leaves dark green on the upper surface, and very 

 coarsely crimped. It differs from the Tourlaville variety in not 

 having the leaf-stalk bare at the base, nor the leaves so much 



