nowball, was
sown May 13, and set out June 20. Treatment was the same as for cabbage.

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| | | | Diameter
| First | | | of largest
VARIETY. | head in | No. of | No. of | head in
| days. | plants. | heads. | inches.
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Algiers | 159 | 6 | 5 | 9
Algerian Late | 142 | 9 | 1 | 6
Berlin Dwarf | 124 | 8 | 2 | 5
Carter's Defiance | 124 | 7 | 6 | --
Carter's Dwarf Mammoth | 124 | 6 | 2 | 9
Earliest Dwarf Erfurt | 124 | 10 | 4 | 7
Erfurt Early Dwarf | 131 | 6 | 3 | 5
Early Dutch | 142 | 7 | 3 | 6
Early London | 129 | 6 | 4 | 9
Extra Early Paris | 142 | 3 | 2 | 9
Gerry Island | 133 | 3 | 3 | 6
Imperial | 119 | 8 | 7 | 10
Italian Giant White | 175 | 6 | 1 | 10
Large Late London | 128 | 6 | 5 | 7
Large White French | 105 | 8 | 8 | 6
Lenormand's Short-Stemm'd | 128 | 5 | 5 | 8
Rice's Giant Snowball | 152 | 7 | 1 | 4
Snowball | 128 | 5 | 4 | 6
Stadtholder | 128 | 6 | 5 | 9
Thorburn's Wonderful | 128 | 4 | 4 | 6
Veitch's Autumn Giant | 128 | 6 | 3 | 6
Walcheren | 128 | 3 | 3 | 6
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In 1884, the following twenty varieties were grown. The seeds were sown
in a green-house March 5 and 6, and the plants set out May 2. It appears
from the table that some of the varieties called "late," formed heads
earlier than others called "early." The Lenormand Extra Large was the
earliest, forming its first head in 149 days, the Lackawanna heading a
day later. None of the heads were extra large:

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