A o-reat specialty of our business has for the past fifteen years been the production and 
sale of Cabbage Plants, and thousands of market gardeners and planters have learned 
that they can get stockier, healthier and thriftier plants of us than they can grow 
themselves and cheaper too. We actually sow them by the acre and shall this season 
have “millions for defense.” The seeds are sown in beds in the open ground in drills 
far enough apart so that they have room to grow short, stocky and with an abundance 
of fine fibrous roots, very unlike those so frequently seen crowded in boxes or raised 
beds. Plants from our first sowings are ready for setting on June 1st, and fiom that 
date we'shall have them ready at all times until August. 
Varieties.—For earliest use we shall have at 
the beginning of the season a supply of Early Jersey 
Wakefield and Henderson’s Early Summer, but of 
course there is but little demand for thes® aftei 
June 1st. 
Early Flat Dutch. This fine variety is gaining rap¬ 
idly in public estimation and we shall sow largely 
of it this season. In trials made in the experimental 
grounds of the Rural New Yorker, and also at the 
New York State Experimental Station last season, 
we notice this variety is reported to have produced a 
greater number of perfect heads in proportion to 
the number of plants set than any other. The heads 
are large and solid, somewhat resembling the Late 
Flat Dutch, but two or three weeks earlier in matur- 
ing. 
Large French Oxheart. This is the earliest varie¬ 
ty we should advise setting after June 1st. It produ¬ 
ces fine cone-shaped ha&ds which grow close and 
firm and with but few loose leaves. 
Early Bleichfield Giant. An early short-stemmed 
German variety which has become quite popular in 
some sections. It is good for first early planting, 
and again for very latest in July after it is too late to 
risk the standard late varieties. 
Early Winningstadt. This is an old and popular 
variety, which produces very hard pointed heads. 
Like the early varieties above, it may be set 3 by 
feet when nearly 10,000 plants may be set on an acre. 
It is very sure to head, even on poor and sandy M>il, 
and is not injured by the worms so much as the loos¬ 
er heading ones. 
Fottler's Improved. Brunswick. This variety which 
is by some called Fottler’s Early Drumhead, is 
in season about half way between the'.Winningstadt 
and Late Flat Dutch. It produces a large fiat white 
head on a very short stump, and for all purposes is 
becoming one of the most popular varieties. The 
demand for it is second only to Late Flat Dutch, and 
surpasses it in some sections. 
Late Flat. Dutch. This is perhaps better known 
and more widely cultivated than any other variety 
Different strains are known by various names a 
•‘Excelsior Flat Dutch,” "Premium Flat Dutch,” &c 
but if seeds are carefully grown from the best selec. 
ed heads there is but little difference in them. Fo 
winter use the plants are set in this latitude fron p 
June 20th to July 20th, though we would recommea 
setting some earlier variety after July 4th. 
Late Am. Drumhead. This somewhat resemble! 
the Flat Dutch in appearance, is rather lighter i 
color and preferred by some. 
Marblehead Mammoth. This is the largest cal 
bage grown. Very rich land, good cultivation and 
long season must be given it or it may fail to full 
develop. 
Drumhead Savoy is the best of its class. T j ] 
savoys are the tenderest and best cabbages in cm. 
vatioa, but the worms are more likely to injure thea 
than any others. 
Red Dutch and Red Drumhead are largely us* 
for pickling raw, and sell at a high price on accou 
of their high eolor. 
Mixed Varieties. We shall grow plants from see 
of all of the above varieties mixed for family use 
same price as for separate kinds. 
Prices.—One hundred plants by mail post pa 
40 cents. Four hundred plants packed in a lig 
basket, by express $1.00, 1000 plants by expres 
$2.00, 5000 or over by express at $1.50 per 1000. The 
prices include free boxing and delivery to expr 
office lie re. 
Otlier Plants. 
We shall also be able to supply in their respect* 
seasons, a limited quantity of choice plants of L 
ingston’s Perfection Tomatoes at $2A0 per 100, a' 
Golden Dwarf Celery at $3.00 per 1000 by expre 
We selected these as in our opinion the very t 
varieties known for general use. 
ISAAC F. TILLINGHAST, 
La Plume, Laek’a Co., Pa. 
