SMOOTH-LEAVED DRUMHEAD CABBAGES 133 



Fumel Cabbage. 



in compactness and weight ; nevertheless, a good kind for the 

 kitchen-gardens of farms or large establishments, on account of 

 its productiveness and earliness. 



Fumel Cabbage. — This kind, and also the two following 

 varieties, might be considered as intermediate between the Smooth- 

 leaved Cabbages and the 

 Savoy Cabbages, as the 

 leaves are coarsely 

 crimped and almost 

 curled. We shall, how- : 

 ever, follow the usual 

 custom in classing them - 

 with the Smooth-leaved - 

 kinds, and they cannot 

 be more properly placed 

 than next to the Schwein- 

 furt Cabbage, which they 

 resemble in their earliness and in the softness of the head. The 

 Fumel Cabbage appears to have originated in the south of France ; 

 at least, it is very much grown there, and also in Algeria. It 

 has a very short stem, and not many outside leaves, which spread 

 horizontally close to the ground, are of a dark green colour, and 

 broadly crimped. The head, on the other hand, is very light in 

 colour, loose, broad, and very much flattened ; it is almost as large 

 as that of the Saint-Denis Cabbage, but not nearly so heavy, and 

 goes out of shape very soon. This is one of the earliest of all 

 the Cabbages, but it does not appear to answer the climate of 

 northern districts, where it rots too easily. 



Early Habas Cabbage. — A variety grown in all the south- 

 western districts of France, where it is sometimes confounded with 



the following kind. It is 

 a pretty early Cabbage, 

 with a short stem, and 

 numerous crimped leaves, 

 rather light in colour, 

 the lower ones almost 

 spreading on the ground , 

 the inner leaves form a 

 rather loose head of a 

 yellowish green colour. 



Dax Drumhead 

 Cabbage. — Stem pretty 

 long; leaves very numerous, coarsely crimped, of a darker and more 

 glaucous green than those of the preceding kind, and resembling 

 those of the Large Drumhead Savoy to some extent ; head round, 

 seldom well formed, at least in the climate of Paris, and always rather 



Early Habas Cabbage (^V natural size). 



