Odourless Cabbages

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 10

Odourless Cabbages

I f)XF thousand smell-less cabbages are I under guard at Cornell University —each of them a descendant of a cabbage with no odour discovered at Cornell a few months ago, states a mesI sago from Xew York. I These white hopes of cabbage are 'guarded to preserve their seed from contamination with smelly relatives, with a vie-.v to having enough. iOf the new cabbage to go commercially on the market in about two years. I The smell-less cabbage was disI covered by Professor G. H. Myers in a strain of House of Savoy cabbages. It was a hereditary "sport." "We decided," Professor Myers said, "not t.o put all our eggs in one basket. For that reason some of the plants were placed in cold storage; others were buried, farm fashion, in a trench; still others wore stored in a cellar, and a fairly large number were even sheltered in the greenhouse." I From the latter Professor Myers hopes to get 15,000 seeds. These will be held at Cornell as'a reserve. Meani while the other seed produced by the aristocratic House of Savoy vegetable will be given to seed producers for I rial in gardens.