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Early Cabbage or White Butter. 
This is the most popular variety 
Early Cabbage or White Butter. 
An early variety forming a solid head, but 
not quite so large as some others. It is the 
best kind for family use, to sow during fall 
and early spring, as it is very early and of 
good flavor. 
Improved Royal Cabbage. 
in this State. Heads light green, of large size, and about two weeks 
later than the White Butter. It is very tender and crisp; can be sown 
later in the spring than the foregoing kind, and does not run into seed 
so quickly. 
Brown Dutch Cabbage. A very hardy kind, forms a solid 
head, not so popular as many other kinds. 
Drumhead Cabbage. 
An excellent spring variety 
forming large heads, the outer 
leaves curled. 
White Paris Coss. This 
is very popular with the New 
Orleans market-gardeners, as it 
is the favorite with the French 
population. It grows to perfec¬ 
tion and forms large, fine heads, 
particularly in the spring of the 
year. 
Perpignan. A fine German 
Drumhead Cabbage Lettuce, 
variety which forms large light 
green heads, and which stands the heat better than the Royal. It is 
much cultivated for the market, as it thrives well when sown during 
the latter end of spring. 
improved Large Passion. This is a large Cabbage Lettuce 
from California; it attains a large size, grows slowly, but heads very 
hard. It does better here during late autumn and winter than in sum¬ 
mer, as it cannot stand the heat. If sown late in the fall and trans¬ 
planted during winter, it grows to very large heads, hard and firm. 
It is the kind shipped from here in the spring. 
MELON.— Musk or Canteloupe. 
Melon (Fr.), Melone (Gcr.), Melon (Sp.). 
Netted Nutmeg. 
Netted Citron. 
Pine Apple. 
Easily White Japan. 
Persian or Cass aba. 
New Orleans Market. 
Melons require a rich sandy loam. If the ground is not rich enough 
a couple of shovels full of rotted manure should be mixed into each 
hill, which ought to be from five to six feet apart; drop ten or twelve 
seeds, and when the plants have two or three rough leaves, thin out 
to three or four plants. Canteloupes are cultivated very extensively in 
the neighborhood of New Orleans, and the quality is very fine; far 
