BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Long Island Improved 
90 days 
Plant—20 inches tall, compact, very uniform, productive, stems well covered with firm 
sprouts 14-1% inches in diameter, medium green. 
Produces cabbage-like balls successively from base of stem upward. It is unusually 
fine flavored and grown chiefly as a fall crop. 
CABBAGE 
_ It is important that Cabbage be uniform, high yielding and true to type. Northrup 
King’s stocks are produced from specially grown stock seed rigidly selected for these 
qualities. Many important varieties are selected in Minneapolis breeding grounds for 
earliness, resistance to disease and high yield. 
Maturity dates listed are approximate number of days required from the setting of 
plants in the field to the time heads are ready for use. 
Early Varieties 
Allhead Early 
Plant—11-16 inches, 
leaves gray-green. 
77 days 
short stem, outer 
Heads—9-10 inches wide, 7 inches deep, 
flattened but with distinct roundness 
over the top, weight about 6 pounds, 
firm and tender head. 
Early Kraut and shipping variety. 
Charleston Wakefield 72 days 
Plant—12-15 inches tall, dark 
smooth leaves, short stemmed. 
green 
Head—6 inches broad at base x 8 inches 
deep, weight 3-4 pounds, broadly conical 
in shape. 
Similar to Jersey Wakefield but larger, 
less pointed and 10 days later. A good 
winter shipper in the South. 
68 days 
Plant—11-14 inches, compact short stem, 
total spread about 24 inches, erect, few 
outer leaves, medium light green, cup- 
shaped. 
Copenhagen Market 
Heads—6 inches in diameter, 3-4 pounds 
globe shaped, solid. 
An early market and home garden type. 
Early Jersey Wakefield 62 days 
Plant—10-15 inches tall, upright, short 
stemmed, compact with medium green 
leaves. 
Head—5 inches in diameter at base and 
about 7 inches deep, weight 2-242 pounds, 
conical shaped, greenish-white interior 
and fairly solid. 
Very early variety valuable for home and 
market garden use. Excellent flavor. 
Glory of Enkhuizen 78 days 
Plant—12-16 inches, fairly compact, me- 
dium short stem, spread about 28 
inches, large leaves, medium yellowish 
green. 
Heads—6-71'% inches diameter, weight 5-6 
pounds, nearly round, quite compact. 
A standard mid-season variety, widely 
used for kraut in the North and as a 
shipper in the South. 
Golden Acre 
Golden Acre 
63 days 
Plant—11 inches tall, medium green, very 
compact and fast growing, short 
stemmed with small, cup-shaped leaves. 
Head—6-7 inches in diameter, weight 3 
pounds, round with white, solid interior. 
Earliest and most popular of the round 
headed varieties. Used extensively by 
home, market gardeners and shippers. 
Round Dutch 71 days 
Plant—10-12 inches tall, crinkled, dark 
blue-green, cup-shaped leaves on a 
short stem. 
Head—7 inches in diameter x 6 inches 
deep, weight 4% pounds, almost ball 
shaped. 
Used in the East as an early market and 
shipping variety. Stands over winter 
well and does not bolt to seed easily. 
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