114 CAULIFLOWER. 
grown. The heads are as sweet and tender as the best 
field product, and we have rarely grown a crop under 
glass, either of vegetables or flowers, which was so satis- 
factory and which attracted so much attention as these 
crops of cauliflowers. As to varieties, there is evidently 
little choice between the Erfurt and Snowball strains. In 
the last and most successful crop, the Early Snowball 
was the earlier, but otherwise it had little if any superi- 
ority over the other. 
Subsequent experience has confirmed the methods 
detailed above, and has convinced us that cauliflower is 
one of the most satisfactory plants for forcing, so far as 
the growing of them is concerned. It is a question 
whether they would bring sufficient price in the market 
to warrant the raising of them in winter. The grower 
would certainly need to have a special market, for it is 
not a staple commodity.  Field-grown cauliflowers are 
now kept in cold storage, which would still further re- 
duce the demand for forced heads. It should be said, 
in closing, that cauliflower seed is very expensive, and 
that only the very best seed can be relied upon for good 
results. 
