or your patch likely to become neglected, 
or if you are uncertain that you can grow 
cabbage successfully, choose the Winnig- 
stadt. 
Fottler's Early Drumhead, This is, in 
season, intermediate between the Winnig- 
stadt and Flat Dutch. No variety within 
fottler’s early drumhead cabbage. 
my recollection has come so rapidly in pub¬ 
lic favor as the Fottler. Wherever known 
it is favorably known. Being two weeks 
earlier than the Late Flat Dutch it can be 
put out correspondingly later. If planted 
early it makes a profitable summer variety. 
For winter use it may be set out from June 
20 to July 10, and for the South correspond¬ 
ingly later. It produces beautiful, large, 
white, flat heads, frequently attaining a 
weight of 20 pounds each. We have great¬ 
ly improved this variety since it came into 
our hands, and believe that it is, as we have 
it, the best variety for all purposes known. 
We have received many very flattering re¬ 
ports concerning its great value from grow¬ 
ers in all sections of the Union. 
Perfection Drumhead Savoy. The Savoys 
are among the tenderest and best flavored 
of all cabbages, but they do not grow quite 
as large or solid as some other classes. The 
above is the best and most, reliable of its 
class. 
Large Flat Dutch. This has for many 
years been our most popular winter cab¬ 
bage. It is probably more free from all 
diseases than any other variety, and is 
therefore better adapted for southern plant¬ 
ing as it stands the hot sun and summer 
drouths. To fully mature it should be set, 
in this latitude, not later than July 1, but 
in Virginia and New Jersey it is planted un¬ 
til August. Our strain of this variety Is 
from as good seed stock as can be found. 
Late American Dmimhec d. This in ma¬ 
ny respects resembles the above. It is a 
little more spherical in shape and lighter in 
color. An excellent late market variety. 
Improved Bed Drumhead. A great im¬ 
provement upon the old Red Dutch. It is 
much larger and shorter stemmed. Very 
fine for pickling. 
There are many other varieties in cultiva¬ 
tion but the above list includes all the most 
valuable. 
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Growing 1 Cauliflower. 
Though the Cauliflower is not, perhaps, 
as well adapted to the climate of this coun¬ 
try as of Europe, experience has shown 
that it can be profitably grown wherever 
Cabbages thrive, as the general require¬ 
ments of the two are similar. A well 
grown cauliflower makes so tender and 
delicate a dish that it is highly prized by 
all classes who can obtain it, and a crop 
will find a ready sale at really fancy prices 
in any town or city among the wealthier 
classes who do not mind the expense in ob¬ 
taining so desirable an article of food. 
The seeds for the earliest crop are usually 
sown in a hot-bcd in early spring. The 
plants are treated precisely the same as cab¬ 
bage. For a later crop the plants are not 
set in the field until June or July as they 
generally make a better growth after the 
hot summer weather is past. 
Cauliflowers require a rich moist loam. 
In the old countries where they are so ex¬ 
tensively cultivated, beds or ridges are 
thrown up on the low lands, and the ditch¬ 
es between the beds ?fre kept filled with wa¬ 
ter. During the hot and dry months of 
summer the water is frequently poured up¬ 
on and around the plants. With this treat¬ 
ment cauliflower of the largest size and fin¬ 
est quality are produced which readily sell 
at very remunerative prices. 
Varieties: The Early Dwarf Erfurt , is 
the earliest. It produces fine heads and is 
