WELLINGTON.--Introduced about 1860. Henderson & Co. describe it as the finest kind in cultivation; pure white; size of head over two feet in circumference, and as large as thirteen inches diameter; very dwarf, the stem not more than two or three inches from the soil, but with ample foliage; one of the hardiest varieties known, and said to withstand well the variable climate of the United States. C. G. Anderson & Sons of England, in 1880, claimed it to be earlier, white, and closer than Early London. A writer in the _New England Farmer_, in 1871, speaks of it as larger than either Early Erfurt or Early Paris. WONDERFUL, see _Thorburn's Wonderful_. ORDER OF EARLINESS. The following varieties cover the season, and are arranged in the order of earliness, as near as can be determined. Many well known kinds are omitted, and some little known sorts inserted, the only attempt being to form a scale of maturity: Early Dwarf Erfurt. Extra Early Paris. Early London. Asiatic. Early Erfurt. Early Paris. Lenormand Short-Stem. Late Paris. St. Brieuc. Algiers. Veitch's Autumn Giant. Giant Naples. Veitch's Self-Protecting. Late Italian Giant. Walcheren. VARIETY TESTS. NEW YORK EXPERIMENT STATION (_Geneva_).--In 1883 the following twenty-two varieties were sown April 16, and eleven plants of each variety set out May 15. One variety, however, Rice's Giant Snowball, was sown May 13, and set out June 20. Treatment was the same as for cabbage. --------------------------+---------+----------+---------+------------ | | | | Diameter | First | | | of largest VARIETY. | head in | No. of | No. of | head in | days. | plants. | heads. | inches. --------------------------+---------+----------+---------+------------ 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