THE COMMON CABBAGE 



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list of Early Cabbages three round or flat-headed varieties, which 

 by their earliness and smallness of size are clearly distinguished 



from the kinds commonly 

 known as Large Smooth- 

 leaved Cabbages, the series 

 of which commences with 

 the description of the Saint- 

 Denis Cabbage. 



Large Bacalan Cabbage 

 i-^ natural size). 



St. John's Day Dwarf Drumhead 

 Cabbage (^ij natural size). 



St. John's Day Dwarf Drumhead Cabbage. — A very distinct 

 variety, with an extremely short stem. Head very hard and 

 compact, rather broad than long, and somewhat bulging in the 

 upper part ; outer leaves not very numerous, deep green, and very 

 smooth ; those forming the head of a paler green. This variety is 

 very extensively grown in Anjou and Lower Brittany. In the 

 neighbourhood of Paris it does not easily withstand a very cold 

 and damp winter. In its native district it is chiefly sown in 

 autumn for a spring crop ; grown in this way, the heads are not so 

 flat as they turn out when the sowing is made in spring, 



Flat Parisian or Early Spring Cabbage. — A very short- 

 stemmed variety with a broad, flat, slightly rounded head. It has but 



few outer leaves, and its 

 colour is a light vivid green. 

 A very early cabbage, 



Flat Parisian Cabbage. 



Small Early Erfurt Cabbage 

 (-jV natural size). 



admirably suited for market-gardens, and usually grown around 

 Paris along with the second-early varieties of the Ox-heart type. 



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