CAULIFLOWER IX THE SOUTH. 85 



Christmas, which gives ample time to get the crop 

 off* in any part of Texas. 



'• The cauliHower is emphatically a fall vegetable 

 and seems to require for its perfect development a 

 gradually decreasing temperature. The seed should 

 be sowed from the lirst to the fifteenth of July, in 

 a frame. Make the ground very rich, and if you 

 use salt, which I consider almost an essential for 

 this crop, turn it under deeply at the first plowing. 

 In fact, salt and potash had better be deeply 

 worked into the soil always, as it will not do for 

 either to come in contact with the roots of a newly 

 set plant. 



" Until recently I have always thought that it 

 would injure a plant to set it in soil to which cot- 

 tonseed meal had been lately applied. But exper- 

 iments made in the last few weeks prove that it is 

 not only not injurious, but that cabbage plants 

 grow off with wonderful vigor when the meal was 

 applied the day before the plans were set. 



*• It will pay to subsoil for cauliflower, in order to 

 give them all the moisture possible, though they 

 will stand a drouth in the fall equally as well as a 

 cabbage." 



In this connection may be mentioned the follow- 

 ing account of cauliflower growing at Durango, 

 Mexico, sent to the Gardener's Chronicle in 1S53: 

 The writer says: "Of the culinary vegetables, 



