REPORT ON CABBAGES GROWN AT CHISWICK. 
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For convenience and simplification the whole of the Cabbages 
have been arranged in three general classes, as follows, which 
are fairly well defined :— 
1. Garden Cabbages, or varieties suitable for garden 
culture. This is the principal class, and includes all 
the smaller and finer forms of the Cabbage which 
mostly form their hearts quickly, and are of good quality. 
Those that are cultivated for the leaf stalks chiefly 
are distinct species, the flowers being white instead of 
yellow. 
2. Field Cabbages, or varieties suitable for growing in 
fields for cattle. This class includes all the large growing 
and coarser varieties, generally termed Dutch or Drumhead. 
In a horticultural sense these are of inferior importance to 
the garden varieties, and need not have been tested at all 
excepting for the purpose of classification. Their peculiar 
merits cannot be determined by garden cultivation, although 
some of them in certain stages and seasons may be very 
serviceable. 
3. Red or Pickling Cabbages. This class is sufficiently well 
defined to require no explanation. Being of a red or 
purplish colour, they are, on that account, preferred for 
pickling to the green varieties. 
From these three general classes the various types or typical 
varieties—that is, such varieties as appeared to possess suffi¬ 
ciently distinct features of a permanent character—have been 
selected and carefully described; photographs were also taken of 
the entire number for future reference, the oldest and most 
generally adopted name being in all cases preferred. Varieties 
under other names which were considered identical are given as 
synonymes, and those varying somewhat, either as to size or 
season, &c., but possessing the same general characters, are given 
as selections or varieties. Thus, in the Early York type, the 
Tom Thumb Early Dwarf is but a finer selection, and in the 
Nonpareil type, although there is a decided difference in the 
general appearance of the finer forms of Carter’s Heartwell and 
Wheeler’s Cocoa Nut, for all practical purposes they are properly 
classed as varieties of the Nonpareil. 
