222 
Plant small, compact, spreading, rather than upright, 
foliage a pale green ground, more or less shaded with pur- 
ple, with deep purple veins and ribs, head roundish, ex- 
tremely solid, rich deep, glossy purplish-red on the outside, 
inside it is less deeply colored than the outside would indi- 
cate ; outer leaves few, small, roundish, smooth, border 
slightly undulate ; stem very short. 
‘The earliest of the red cabbages and one of the earliest of 
cabbages. 
Correctly figured in The Vegetable Garden, p. 120; Les 
plantes potagéres, p. 117. 
No. 46. Garfield Pickling—Greg., ’84, ’85, 86. 
Syn. New Garfield Pickler, Till., ’84. 
Appears to be a larger, taller and later sub-variety of the 
Early Dark Red Erfurt. 
No. 47. Red Drumhead—GREG., 83, ’85, ’86. 
Syn. Dark Red Drumhead, Vil., 85; Large Blood Red, Vil.; Large Red 
Drumheal, Vil., 84; Large Red Dutch, Burr; Large Red Dutch Pickling, 
Vea. GAR. ; Mammoth Rock Red, Hen., ’86; Padilla Purple Pickling ? Till.,’85: 
Vil. ; Pickling, Vil.; ed, Thor., ’86; Chow rouge gros, Viu.. ’84, 85: Ger: 
Blutrothes grosses spates Kraut, Vil.; Rother grosser Kopfkohl, A. de Cl.; 
Holl. Groote late roode kool, Vil.; Port. Couve vermelho grande, Vil. 
A large sub-variety of the Red Dutch, with the head 
round, or nearly so, somewhat harder, and of nearly double 
the size. The leaves have the border much undulate, or 
ruffled, and the lower ones are often petioled. Like the 
Red Dutch, it is a very late variety. 
“Care should be taken not to run these cabbages too 
large, or they will lose in color, which lessens their value 
for pickling and salad uses. Attempts at growing seed 
from this cabbage in this country have generally been quite 
unsuccessful.” ‘‘Cabbages and How to Grow Them ;” 
Greg, p. 42. 
Correctly figured in The Vegetable Garden, p. 120; Les 
plantes potagéres, p. 117. ; 
The Red Dutch and Red Drumhead appear to be much 
confused by seedsmen. In many of our plantings the two 
appeared to be mixed, and it is probable that each is often 
sold for the other. 
No. 48. Rep Durca—Brit1; Ev., ’86; Grea, ’85, ’86; HEN. ; 
LAND., ’86. 
Syn. Dark Red Dutch Vil., °84; Harly Dark Red Dutch, Vil., ’85; Fine 
Red Dutch, Sib.,’86; Red Dutch Pickling, Hen., ’86; Red for Pickling, Thor., 
"83; Red Pickling, Sib., ’86; Utrecht Red, Burr, Vea. Gar., Vil. ; Fr. Chou, 
noiratre, Vil.; Ch. rouge petit, Viu., 84, 85; Ch. rouge petit d’ Utrecht 
er 
r = 
ee 
