WHITE-HEAD CABBAGE 

• Brassica oleracea convar. capitata
• Brassicaceae (Crucifers)

   White-head cabbage came from wild-growing species in Western Europe and North Africa. Long before BC this variety started to grow in Iberia where it was called “aschi”. Then this variety was shipped to Egypt, Greece and Rome. In the beginning of AD they started to grow this cabbage at the Balkans and Transcaucasia. In Svyatoslav's Miscellany (the oldest reference book of Kievan Rus) that was formed in 1076, was special chapter devoted to question of storage and usage of white-cabbage. It was described as daily product. In Ukraine cabbage got a so-called second motherland. Our gardeners are considered as masters of it's growing. In 1875 at Vienna agricultural exposition our cabbage varieties were awarded with medal “For a progress”. This variety was made by plant selection breeder A. Hrachov. Heads of this variety were 70 cm in diameter. They were very firm, white and had excellent eating qualities.