JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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known. It matures about ten days later than the Early York. 
While about all varieties of early Cabbage make rather soft 
heads, this, though early, makes the hardest heading Cabbage 
known. The heads when fully grown attain to the size of 
from six to eight inches in diameter. Put up in packages at 
fifteen cents each, or ounce packages at fifty cents each. 
I present below a few extracts from the many letters, re¬ 
ceived from customers relative to my Marblehead Mammoth, 
Stone-Mason, Cannon Ball, Winnigstadt, Improved American 
Savoy, Schweinfurt Quintal, and Early Wyman Cabbages, etc. 
Please note what is said of the quality as well as size of my 
Mammoth Cabbage. Gardeners will see by comparing the 
letters of different years that I have kept up the high strain of 
my Cabbage seed. 
“ The Marblehead Mammoth cabbage was the largest I ever raised, and 
the sweetest and tenderest. My neighbors have taken the idea that may 
be they can raise some of that large cabbage that is so sweet and tender. 
I tell them where to send but they say you send for me. I raised one 
that weighed 47 pounds.” Esther H. Niles. 
Orland Steuben Co., Ind., April 5, 1874. 
From the Mammoth cabbage seed I had of you, last year, I raised 
the largest cabbages in these parts. I sent six to the fair which took the 
first premium. I had one head that measured live feet in circumference.” 
Plymouth, Conn., March 3, 1874. Moses B. Scott. 
“ 1 was much pleased with the Cabbage seed of last year, particularly 
the ‘ Little Pixie ’ for early use.” ■ Mrs. B. M. Edelen. 
Bryantoion , C -has. Co., Md., Feb. 13, 1874. 
Seeds purchased from you last year were all No. 1, especially Cab¬ 
bage. I used about 500 plants, from seed purchased of you in 1872. 
500 No. 1 large heads were the result. I also used 600 plants given to 
me by a friend, the seed of which, was purchased in town, the result 
was not one cabbage out of 600 plants. J. W. Green 
Paris, 111., March 17,1873. 
“ Seed bought last year all did well and gave general satisfaction. 
Our Marblehead and Stone-Mason and Fottler’s Cabbages were a perfect 
show, and by far the best cabbages in this county.” 
McDowell, Va., March 8, 1873. I. W. Alexander. 
“I have used your garden seeds and they are the best that I have ever 
used. I have raised thirty tons of the Mammoth Cabbage to the acre.” 
Dayton, Nevada, Dec. 8, 1872. A. J. Barrett. 
\ Tk® Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage seed I received from you last 
spring did remarkably well. I believe every seed grew. My neighbors 
and many others were astonished to see the large and solid heads of 
cabbage; they weighed from 20 to 50 lbs. to the head and were tender 
and sweet and excellent in every respect.” William Steele. 
Broolcville, Pa. 
“ Your Stone-Mason Cabbage has proved first rate with me the last 
two seasons. Every one gives a good head. It was the best in our 
m S ket A> , ■ „ I. L. SCHUITZ. 
Fly Mountain, N. Y., March 2, 1872. 
“The seed. I got of you last year were all what they were represented 
to be. 1 had an acre of the finest Cabbages ever grown in this section. 
Some heads weighed upwards of 25 lbs., and a large number ranged 
from 15 to ,;0 lbs. Many of my neighbors desire to have of James J. H. 
Gregory s seeds. Success to the Yankee seed grower !” 
Weaversville, Pa., April 5, 1872. Seiple. 
“The Cannon Ball was the finest early Cabbage I ever saw. Every 
plant made a head. All our neighbors who tasted or saw them pro¬ 
nounced them A, No. 1. W. T. Cheney. 
Bosemond, 111., Feb. 2, 1«73. 
Mr. J. M. Witherspoon, Sr., has growing upon his lot a cabbage which 
exceeds anything for size that we ever saw in that line. It covers a 
space of ground five and a half feet in diameter, and has leaves two feet 
nine inches in length and twenty-two inches wide. It is of the Marble¬ 
head variety, and is growing on white sandy soil.— From the Apalachi¬ 
cola {Fla.) Times. 
“I must brag a.little more on the Marblehead Mammoth cabbage. 
From nine heads I received $18. They took first and second premiums. 
From the one ounce I made $100; selling single heads at 25 cents per 
head, $2 per dozen.” John Martin. 
Parlcville, Mo., Feb., 2, 1874. 
‘‘I kave got out and heading up nearly 40,000 cabbages from seeds ob¬ 
tained of you—the largest cabbage crop ever grown in the state. They 
•are looking splendidly.” H. M. Siiingfellow. 
Galveston, Texas, Oct. 27, 1874. 
“ Your Wyman Cabbage is the Cabbage for this place. I transplanted 
in April 800 plants, commenced to sell on 12th of July ; on the 25th of 
September had sold 2550. lbs. at 5 cts. per lb. They weighed from 5 to 
13 lbs. each. I do not write this as an advertisement, but to say that I 
have faith in your seeds. Charles Maynard. 
Hay Forlc, Cal., Nov. 20 1873. 
“Your Mammoth Drumhead surprised the natives. I took the pre¬ 
mium easily at our county fair. I do not think there were five plants in 
a thousand that did not make a good head. Jno. H. Snowdon. 
Missouri Valley, Iowa, Jan. 20, 1873. 
The Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage was the largest I ever raised 
and the sweetest and tenderest.” Jacob Hartman ’ 
Hellen, Pa. March 4, 1872. 
“ The seed I had of you was as recommended. I planted about one 
acre of the best Fottler’s and Mammoth Cabbages, and had a good sized 
head to every plant, the Fottler’s weighing as high as 24 lbs., and some 
of the Mammoths were so large I could not get them into a barrel ” 
, Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 28, 1872. a F Clark 
“ Among the Flat Dutch Cabbages I raised from the seed I received 
from you, I had one that measured in circumference around the solid 
head four feet eight inches.” Charles Shilling. 
Wassaic, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1872. 
“ The seeds that I received from you last spring were just what you 
represented them to be. I raised your Mammoth Cabbage last year to 
the weight of 32 lbs., and the Stone-Mason to the weight of 264 and the 
Fottler to 18| lbs.” William R. Campbell. 
Quincy, Mich., Feb. 19, 1872. 
“ Th A cabba g es I raised last year, the Winnigstadt, Fottler’s and 
Stone-Mason, .rom the seed I obtained of you, were the finest I ever 
saw. I could sell them for good prices, while others here could hardly 
sell theirs at all. I have bought most of my seeds of you for the last 
five years, and have always found them A, No. 1.” 
Wilmington, PI, Feb. 20, 1871. J. R. Bickerton 
The Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage seed I received from you last 
spring did remarkably well. I believe every seed grew. My neighbors 
were astonished to see the Mammoth Cabbage. Several of them weighed 
upwards of 30 lbs. each. They took the premium at the St. Clair 
County Fair.” Robert E. French. 
Fort Gratiot, Mich., Jan. 4, 1871. 
“I have grown the largest premium Flat Dutch Cabbage that I ev 
saw from your seed last year, and my neighbors all wanted to knc 
where I got my seed. J. Hilderman. 
Charleston , Pa., Jan. 13, 1873. 
My Cabbage, grown from your seed, has taken the first premium for 
three years at the Hoosac Valley fair, and it is with pleasure that I rec¬ 
ommend your seed to the public. George Davis 
North Adams, Mass., April, 22,1873. 
“ 1 sent for a package of those large Mammoth Cabbage Seeds last 
year, and I never had better success with my cabbages than with them 
I raised one which weighed 324 lbs. " j Reeves 
Birmingham, Conn., March 12, 1873. 
Everybody that saw my Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage said I had 
the largest and best cabbage that they had ever seen in Clay County 
Coffee, Ind., March 28, 1873. Thomas J. Fires 
“I am safe in saying that the Mammoth, Stone-Mason and Fottler 
were the best cabbages I ever saw grow. Wm Stobie 
Murray, Ind., Feb. 25, 1873. 
“ The Cannon Ball and Fottler Cabbage seed that I got of you In 
year all grew nicely, and better cabbages never grew in northern J 
__ James D. Phillips. 
Winfield , Indiana, Feb. 17, 1873. 
“ Mr. J. Elliot raised cabbages from your Marblehead Mammoth seed 
X got f on him, that weighed 60 lbs. trimmed;” J. J. Dawson 
Tillamook Co., Oregon. 
Last year received from you one package of Marblehead Mammoth 
cabbage. The heads weighed from 30 to 474 pounds. It is the best cab- 
ba^e lever saw.” Francis Finely. 
Sarah P. O., Pa., March 3, 1873. 
‘ Tor the last three years, since I bought seed of you, they were of the 
best quality and pure. The Early Ulm Savoy and also Improved Amer¬ 
ican Savoy are the best and tenderest cabbages I ever tasted.” 
Hamburg, Iowa, Feb. 24, 1871. Andrew Ruedy. 
The seed I received last year from you did very well, particularly the 
Early Wyman Cabbage. It was the best of early cabbages I ever raised ” 
Stmilersville, Pa., Jan. 30, 1871. " L I Held 
i nave Deen mucn pleased. ^_ _ 
ommended in your Catalogue. I raised your Mammoth Cabbage last 
year weighing 45 lbs. ” Thomas F. Coleman. 
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 27, 1870. 
“Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages grown here have weighed 
from 28 to 39 lbs. Prof. Long of our town gives them the preference to 
any other for flavor. ” fi q. Cole 
Delaware, Wis , Oct., 1870. 
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Cabbage seeds that I got from you last year, I raised the largest and the 
best cabbages ever raised in this part of the country. Even an old 
Yankee told me, * in all my travels,’ he says, 4 1 never saw anything in 
the cabbage line to equal them.’ ” Patrick Rot hfr 
Harper’s Ferry, Iowa\ March 2, 1871* PATRICK Bolger. 
