Cannon Ball Cabbage
The hardest heading of all early sorts. This cabbage is so called because the head is as round, and almost as hard and heavy, as a cannon-ball. I pronounce it as forming the roundest, hardest and heaviest head, in proportion to its size, of any cabbage known. It matures about ten days later than the Early York. While about all varieties of early cabbage make rather soft heads, this, though early, makes the hardest headed cabbage known. The heads when fully grown attain to the size of from six to eight inches in diameter. pkt.,10c; oz., 30c; ¼ lb., $1.00; lb., mail, $2.90; lb., exp, $2.75.
Originally listed in: James J.H. Gregory's 1885 Retail Catalogue
The hardest heading of all early sorts. This cabbage is so called because the head is as round, and almost as hard and heavy, as a cannon-ball. I pronounce it as forming the roundest, hardest and heaviest head, in proportion to its size, of any cabbage known. It matures about ten days later than the Early York. While about all varieties of early cabbage make rather soft heads, this, though early, makes the hardest headed cabbage known. The heads when fully grown attain to the size of from six to eight inches in diameter. pkt.,10c; oz., 30c; ¼ lb., $1.00; lb., mail, $2.90; lb., exp, $2.75.
Originally listed in: James J.H. Gregory's 1885 Retail Catalogue