128 THE CAULIFLOWER. 



Algiers as follows: ''Extremely vigorous, stronger 

 and better developed than the Giant Naples, 

 [Yeitch's Autumn Giant] ; leaves very large, undu- 

 late, almost curly, of a very deep and reflective 

 glaucous green ; stem large and strong, rather tall ; 

 head remarkably large, fine and white. In habit 

 of growth it approaches the Half Early Paris, but 

 in time of maturity it agrees with the varieties of 

 Holland and England. It is especially adapted to 

 open-air culture in a warm climate." 



M. May, of France, placed it in 1880 just before 

 Giant Naples in maturity, with a little shorter 

 stem and little less ample foliage. He said: " Late, 

 but of gigantic size; leaves large, long and numer- 

 ous, of a glaucous green, and surrounding well the 

 head, which becomes as large as those of our native 

 varieties, and is snow-white and exceedingly fine. 

 Specially suited to warm climates. In our country 

 it may be sown in September, and gathered the 

 following August." 



Rawson, a seedsman of New York, said in 1886: 

 " A large and very popular late variety, and one of 

 the very best for the market. This variety is largely 

 grown for the New York market. It is one of the 

 largest in cultivation, and always sure to head." 

 Frotzer, of New Orleans, describes it as a French 

 variety of the same season as Lenormand Short- 

 stem, but a surer producer, having taken the place 



