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THE CAULIFLOWER. 



best varieties are Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt, the 

 Snowball, and the very large growing Algiers. It 

 should be marketable in March and April. The 

 seed therefore should be sown in the latitude of 

 Savannah about December first, under glass, and 

 the plants transplanted about January tenth." 



Dr. Charles Mohr, of Mobile, Alabama, writes: 

 " From my own experience I judge that this vege- 

 table does not succeed as well in the southern part 

 of this state as in its central and more northern 

 parts. I have seen it raised of good quality in the 

 gardens of Montgomery, and in the greatest per- 

 fection in the highlands of north Alabama at an 

 elevation of about 500 feet above the Gulf — at Cull- 

 man, in a somewhat light loamy soil, well supplied 

 with stable manure. In that locality the seeds are 

 sown by the end of February in a cold frame, to 

 allow protection of the young plants from frost, 

 and the plants are transferred to the open land by 

 the middle of March. They arrive at their perfection 

 during the first half of the month of May. An- 

 other sowing is made durino: the first week of 

 March to furnish a crop during the early part of 

 June. In that locality this vegetable is raised only 

 to meet a very limited home demand. My in- 

 formant at Montgomery, who raises only a supply 

 for his own use, writes: 'I have raised cauli- 

 flower here with success for a series of years, some 



