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head is not fully formed. The Parisian cultivators are careful 

 not to sow it too early, seldom doing so before June, if it is 

 intended to pass the winter in the open ground. 



Extra Late Amager Cabbage.— Stem tall, leaves of a peculiar 

 silvery gray colour, smooth, rounded, slightly convoluted at the 

 edges. Head round, only slightly flattened, weighing from 4 to 

 6 lb. It is late to form, but very hard. Introduced from Denmark, 

 where it stands the severest winters without any protection, it is 

 the hardiest of all headed Cabbages. 



Early Dark Red Erfurt Cabbage.— A very handsome, small, 

 dwarf kind, with a spherical head not much larger than a big 



Vaugirard Cabbage natural size). Cabbage (^V natural size). 



orange. Leaves round, not very numerous, dark red, almost black. 

 The heart of the head, however, is not so dark. A very handsome 

 little Cabbage for the kitchen-garden, taking up little space, and 

 coming in early. The stem is short but well defined, as the outer 

 leaves stand up well around the head, as in the Late St. John's Day 

 Cabbage. This variety does not do well, unless when sown in 

 spring — at least, in the neighbourhood of Paris. 



Utrecht Red Cabbage. — Stem rather long ; head round, com- 

 pact, and dark red ; outer leaves rather numerous, of medium size, 

 round, and rather stiff ; the 

 heart of the head is not 

 very deeply coloured. 



Large Red Dutch Pick- 

 ling Cabbage, or Large 

 Red Drumhead Cabbage. — 

 Stem rather long ; outer leaves 

 very large, broadly undulated 

 at the edges, violet -red, 

 sometimes slightly mixed 

 with green, and covered 

 abundantly with bloom, which 

 gives them a blue tinge ; head rather large, rounded in shape, 

 slightly depressed, not so deeply coloured on the outside as that 



Utrecht Red Cabbage. 



