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small in comparison with the luxuriance of the leaves. A half-late 



variety, which appears to 

 ^^~KM^tJ^\ be of little account outside 



of its native locality. 



Late Flat Dutch 

 Drumhead Cabbage. — 

 Head rather large, round, 

 somewhat depressed in 

 shape, very full and firm ; 

 outer leaves pretty nume- 

 rous, large, and clinging, 

 broadly crimped to some 

 extent. This variety has a 



Dax Drumhead Cabbage (y^ natural size). longer Stem and is more 



glaucous and later than the Saint-Denis Cabbage. Its principal 

 merit is that of being exceedingly hardy and capable of enduring 

 the most severe frost. 

 The Ecury Cabbage, 

 which is well known 

 and highly esteemed in 

 Champagne, resembles 

 it very much. 



Hundredweight, 

 Quintal, or Mason's 

 Drumhead Cabbage. — 

 One of the oldest and 

 best Late Cabbages. 

 Head broad, very large, 

 very much flattened, 



and very firm ; leaves ^ate Hat Dutch Drumhead Cabbage (^V natural size). 



a pale glaucous or 



ashy green, with very numerous white veins, and the edges often 

 cut or toothed ; outer leaves rather numerous, but not growing 



to a very great size, turned 

 back at the tops and 

 showing the head well. A 

 late, very hardy, and very 

 productive kind, and is 

 one of the sorts which 

 are most used for making 

 Sauer-Kraut. Probably no 

 other variety of Cabbage 

 is so extensively employed 

 for field culture. The 

 Melsbach Cabbage appears 

 to be a somewhat earlier sub-variety of this. 



Hundredweight, or Quintal, Cabbage. 



