At the head of these I would place BURPEE’S SUREHEAD, which
has done so well for me since I began planting it, never failing
a single season, that I now plant my whole crop of it, instead of
planting two or three kinds as formerly, to guard against poor seed
or a bad season. It is an improved type of the Premium Flat Dutch, to
which it is superior in the evenness and regularity of its heads and
the “sureness” of every plant to form a fine head. With me the heads
average larger than the Flat Dutch, are rather more rounding in shape
and are of the finest quality.
[Illustration: EARLY SUMMER CABBAGE.]
[Illustration: BURPEE’S SUREHEAD CABBAGE.]
[Illustration: BURPEE’S SHORT-STEM DRUMHEAD CABBAGE.]
SHORT-STEM DRUMHEAD.--This variety produces on extra short
stems, only a few inches in height, very large solid heads, often
twenty-five pounds in weight. It is from this kind that the very
large heads seen at the county fairs in the fall are grown, and where
the ground is heavily manured and well cultivated enormous crops of
this variety can be grown; it is of fine quality, very solid and an
excellent keeper.
[Illustration: The Vandergaw Cabbage
The Best Second Early and Summer Cabbage.
Equally as Good For Winter.