Meaning of drumhead cabbage | Babel Free

Definitions

A variety of large winter cabbage with tightly compacted leaves and a flattened shape.

Examples

“His cows were fed with green food, as being so much cheaper than hay, and for this purpose he planted cabbages and turnips. […] The common drumhead cabbage were first used; next followed the common turnip, then the Swedish and kohlrabi, and last the coleseed.”

“In these results the Sutton's Earliest Drumhead cabbage has given the highest average yield of green crop per acre when the seed was sown and treated in exactly the same way as that of rape.”

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