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A brief study of the table makes it evident that twelve 
plants from each sample of seed are not sufficient to war- 
rant many deductions as to which varieties would give the 
best results to the practical gardener. Indeed this was not 
the Director’s object in making the trial. The cabbages 
were grown for the purpose of securing descriptions of the 
different varieties, and determining the synonyms. Asan 
illustration of the capriciousness of so small a number of 
plants, I note that in the first planting, the rows of St. 
John’s Day Early from Sibley and Vilmorin were surpassed 
in earliness by forty-seven other rows, while in the planting 
made in the open ground they were the earliest of the 
smooth leaved sorts. | | 
By massing the results obtained from the plantings of 
the same variety from different seedsmen, the number of 
plants becomes sufficiently large to discuss. A comparison 
of two prominent early varieties is therefore made, as 
follows : 
A COMPARISON OF EARLY WAKEFIELD AND ETAMPES. 









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The Etampes has been very often claimed by seedsmen 
to be earlier than the Early Wakefield. From the table it 
appears that at the Station, it was not only no earlier but 
the heads were smaller and lighter than in the latter 
variety, 
DO TRANSPLANTED PLANTS HEAD BETTER THAN OTHERS ? 
It has often been claimed that the act of transplanting 
cabbage plants exerts a beneficial influence upon their head- 
ing qualities, The second and third plantings in our test of 
varieties gave an opportunity to make a comparison in this 
respect, as the second planting was made in boxes in the 
