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It appears that the earliest variety was the Very Karly Paris Sa- 
voy, Greg., ’85 which formed a head of edible size in ninety-four days 
from planting. The earliest smooth leaved variety, red cabbages ex- 
cepted, was the Landreth’s Earliest, Land., ’85, which formed its first 
head in 103 days from planting. 
The largest and heaviest heads were from the Stone Mason, Greg., 
85, which produced from eleven plants, ten heads averaging eleven 
inches in diameter, and 154 ounces in weight. 
Fottler’s Improved Early Brunswick, Greg. , ’85 from twenty plants 
formed twenty heads averaging ten inches in diameter, and 146 
ounces in weight. It appears also that the Premium Flat Dutch, 
Greg., °85, Schweinfurt Quintal, Greg., 85, Schweinfurt, A pil ly qpute ts 
Sure Head, Everitt ’85, Saint Dennis Drumhead, Vil., ’85, and Mar- 
blehead Dutch, Greg., ’85 did very well. The Marblehead Mam- 
moth, Greg., ’85 produced some very superior heads, though several 
plants formed no heads. 
The Little Pixie, Greg., ’85, was evidently wrongly named, as was 
a packet of Henderson’s Early Summer, Land., ’85, one of Green 
Glazed (Fr. vert glace d’ Amerique), Vil., °S5, and one of Early 
Wyman, Greg., 85. The last three are not included in the table. 
The plants of Bloomsdale Bullock Heart, Land., ’85 were extremely 
variable, but a single plant being of the Oxheart shape. | 
Several differently named cabbages bore a very close resemblance 
to each other. We hesitate to declare such as synonyms however, 
until a further acquaintance with the varieties. We note those which 
bore the closest resemblance. 
Early Dutch Drumhead, Vil.,’85, Newark Early Flat Dutch, Greg., 
"85, and Original Fottler’s, Greg., 85. 
Premium Flat Dutch, Greg., 85 and Sure Head, Everitt, 785. 
Landreth’s Large York, Land., °85 and Large York, Vil., ’85. 
In several other cases the heads of two differently named cabbages 
were exactly similar in form and color, but differed considerably in 
size, or in the proportion of plants that formed heads. ‘The Karly 
Deep Head; and Late Flat Dutch are examples of this kind. It is 
a question whether, in such cases, the differences may not be more 
due to the selection of seed plants, than to variety characters. 
Large vs. small cabbage seed. 
As in the onion, the seeds of cabbage vary considerably in size. 
As an experiment, we sifted the seeds of eleven packets of Savoy and 
twenty-one of cabbags, and planted the large and small seed sepa- 
rately. The results were as follows: 

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