nding its extraordinary proportions, is tender, well flavored,
and of more than average quality for family use. The plants should be
set three feet apart.

CHAMPION OF AMERICA.

One of the largest of the recently introduced sorts; the whole plant
sometimes attaining a weight of forty pounds and upwards. Head very
large, flattened, somewhat resembling the Drumheads; outer leaves very
few, succulent, and tender; stalk short; quality tender, mild, and well
flavored. As a market variety, it has few, if any, superiors. It heads
with great uniformity, and bears transportation well; but its large size
is objectionable when required for the use of families numbering but few
members.

EARLY BATTERSEA. _Thomp._

Dwarf Battersea. Early Dwarf Battersea.

The type of the Early Battersea is very old. When fully grown, the four
outside or lower leaves are about sixteen inches in diameter; and, when
taken off and spread out, their general outline is nearly circular. The
stem is dwarfish, and the leaf-stalks come out quite close to each
other; so that scarcely any portion of the stem is to be seen between
them. The whole cabbage measures about three feet in circumference. The
heart is shortly conical, with a broad base; near which it is about two
feet in circumference, when divested of the outside leaves. The ribs
boil tender.

It is one of the best sorts for the general crop of early cabbages; is
not liable to crack; and, when cut close to the stem, often puts forth a
number of fresh heads, of fair size and good quality.

EARLY CORNISH.

Penton. Paignton. Pentonville.

This is an intermediate sort, both in respect to size and season; and is
said to derive its name from a village in Devonshire, Eng., where it has
been cultivated for ages. The head is of full medium size, somewhat
conical in form, and moderately firm and solid. The outside leaves are
rather numerous, long, and of a pale or yellowish green color. Its
texture is fine and tender, and its flavor mild and agreeable. It is
three or four weeks later than the Early York.

If reset in spring, this variety, like the Yanack, will send out from
the stalk abundant tender sprouts, which will supply the table with the
best of coleworts, or greens, for several weeks of the early part of the
season.

The plants are somewhat leafy and spreading, and require full the
average space. The rows should be two and a half or three feet apart,
and the distance between the plan