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large, very hard, very tender, rich and sweet; short stumps: 
and few waste leaves. The color of the leaves varies from 
a bluish-green to a pea-green, and the structure from nearly 
smooth to much blistered. In their coloring and blistering 
some specimens have almost a Savoy cast. 
‘Tt is the standard drumhead cabbage in the markets of 
Boston and other Northern cities.” ‘‘Cabbages and How to: 
Grow them,” p. 47. 
No. 32. Surehead;—Kv., ’86. 
Syn. Adl Head, Ev., 86; Burpee’s Surehead, Brill, 86, Burpee, ’86; Maules’ 
Surehead, Maule, ’86. 
Closely resembles the Bergen Drumhead if not identical 
with it. The difference, if any, between the two as grown 
at the Station, is too slight to admit of description. 
No. 33. ULM QuINTAL—Ben., ’85. 
Syn. Fr. Chou pomme blane Quintal @ Ulm, Ben., ’86; Ger. Ulmer grosses 
spites Centner-Kraut, Ben., 86. 
Plant of medium size, peculiar in habit, having small 
outer leaves, of which the lower ones are long petioled& 
giving the foliage a loose and open appearance ; leaves dark 
bluish-green, the color of the St. Denis, but with less lustre; 
head distinctly flattened, pale green, almost always tinted 
with purple on the top, very compact, the outer head leaves 
not meeting; outer leaves small, oval or spatulate, inclin- 
ing to spoon-form, smooth, border plain. 
This cabbage might be called intermediate between the 
green and red cabbages, as its head inclines to red, and has 
the extreme hardness of the red cabbages. 
No. 34. VAUGIRARD ;—BuRR, VEG. GAR, Vil., 84, 785. 
Syn. Vaugirard Winter, A. de Cl.; Vaugirard Winter Drumhead, Vil., 
°84,: Fr. Chou de Vaugirard, Viu., °84, ’85; Ch. d’ hiver, Vil. ; Ger. Grosser 
Vaugirard Winter Kopfkohl, A. de Cl. 
A rather coarse French variety of medium size; foliage 
deep, slightly bluish-green, borders of outer leaves often 
tinted with purplish-red; head slightly flattened, compact, 
pale green, faintly tinged with.red on the top; outer leaves 
roundish or oval, spoon-form, smooth, borders rather 
strongly undulate, veins numerous, rather conspicuous. 
A very hardy variety, much grown about Paris for winter 
consumption, the plants remaining in the open ground 
until wanted for use or market. 
Figured fairly correctly in The Vegetable Garden, p. 119; 
Les plantes potagéres, p. 116. 
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