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was found that the variety planted was Walcheren 

 instead of the Erfurt, a variety that has given me 

 more profitable returns for the last six years than 

 any other, unless it may be the Half Early Paris." 



In New England the crop is more uncertain than 

 on Long Island, ^y. H. Bull, of Hampden County, 

 Massachusetts, finds the crop profitable about one 

 year in three. Formerly, he says, when cauli- 

 flowers were a new thing, any kind of a head would 

 sell, but now only the best will bring a paying 

 price. The loose, leafy, purple, or otherwise dis- 

 colored heads produced in hot, dry weather, are 

 hardly worth hauling to market. He finds the 

 Extra Early Erfurt about as good as Henderson's 

 Snowball. He sows the seed in April for a fall 

 crop. If sown after the first week in May the 

 plants fail to head before frost. 



Around Boston the cauliflower is grown quite 

 successfully, and, as elsewhere stated, seed is 

 occasionally produced there. The variety formerly 

 grown for the main crop was an improved form of 

 Early Paris, called Boston Market, but this is now 

 displaced by the new Extra Early Erfurt strains. 

 It may be mentioned here that around Montreal 

 the fall crop is very successfully grown. 



THE LAKE REGION. 



In the region of the Great Lakes there are 

 many localities having a suitable soil in which 



