Author: William Henry Maule Firm

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780266792987

Excerpt from Maule's Special Wholesale Price List for Market Gardeners, 1902 Again I present the great Lupton Cabbage as a leading novelty. Nothing among the new sorts can approach it in merit and productiveness. N 0 other late cabbage (except Surehead) can rival it. It holds the lace of honor among my cabbage trials, Just as t has done every year for a decade. Lupton has some of the best traits of Surehead, with the size and general shape of Maule's Prize Flat Dutch; but is several days earlier than the latter. Its growth is particularly strong and vig orens. Its color is a dark bluish green, indicating robust constitution and healthy development. The leaves are broad and well filled out to their iuncture with the stem. The stem is short, and broad under the head, but tapers almost to a point where it enters the ground. The head is thick and flat, with the outer leaves covering it well across the centre. It is very large, solid and of the most excellent quality and flavor without any features of coarseness, the veins and ribs be ing well developed, but not prominent. The Lupton cabbage be an its career in 1888, on the eastern end of Long sland, in an extensive cabbage growing district. The originator, whose name the cabbage bears is undoubtedly the largest grower of firstc ass cabbage seed in America and every prominent seed firm in the country considers him an authority on this important subject. In the autumn of 1888 a single specimen of a new strain of cabbage was found rowing as a s ort in a field of Late Flat Dutch. R. Lupton, w ose long experience qualifies him to act as an expert judge at once recognized a prize in the new sort, and thus the Lupton cabbage had its origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.