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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
In this way the whole of the varieties of Cabbages have been 
reduced to the comparatively small number of 
Garden Cabbages . 21 Typical Varieties. 
Field Cabbages . 16 „ „ 
Bed or Pickling Cabbages 2 „ „ 
The great tendency of the whole of the Cabbage tribe to 
variation of character is pretty well understood by most good 
cultivators and seed-growers. It is a matter of selection, good 
or bad stocks, early or late forms, large or small, &c., &c., being 
readily produced according to the attention bestowed in the 
saving of the seed. True or pure stocks are only maintained 
by the most careful and constant selection of the particular 
form desired, and the saving of the seed. Seasons, however, 
and soils also, alter the appearance of Cabbages very much ; 
also the periods of sowing and of planting. The produce, for 
example, from the same bag of seed may one season be very 
true, whilst in the next they appear mixed—some late—some 
early, &c., &c. Some of these variations being considered 
improved forms, are selected, a new name is given, and so 
new (?) varieties are introduced. 
CLASSIFICATION OF CABBAGES. 
Class I. 
Garden Cabbages, or Varieties suitable for Garden Culture . 
1. Atkins’s Matchless. 
2. Bacalan. 
Variety. 
Late Bacalan. 
8 . 
Early Boulogne. 
Synonym. 
Prefin de Boulogne. 
4. 
Early York. 
Synonym. 
Small Oxheart. 
Varieties 
or 
Selections. 
( Superfine Early. 
Tom Thumb Early Dwarf. 
1 Early Dwarf York. 
