1-44 THE CAULIFLOWER. 



tall, but shorter than that of Early' Dutch; head 



well formed and somewhat conical. Formerly the 



main variety grown as an early crop about London, 



but there are now varieties much earlier. 



Yilmorin regards it the same as Early Dutch, 



which is evidently an error. 



Eaely London Market ( Gregory j, see Early 

 London. 



Early London White (Sutton). — An early form 

 of Early London, cultivated some twenty years ago, 

 but now seldom heard of. 



Early Padilla ( Long Island Beauty). — The Early 

 Padilta was named and sent out by Tillinghast in 

 1888, who says that it is a sport from Henderson's 

 Snowball which originated on one of his seed farms 

 on Padilla Bay, Puget Sound, in the State of Wash- 

 ington. Mr. H. A. March, of Fidalgo, Washington, 

 who states that he grows all of Tillinghast's Puget 

 Sound cauliflower seed, says that Early Padilla 

 originated with him from the Large Erfurt, and 

 was named by him the ' 'American. * " It was published 

 at first under this name in one of his circulars. 

 Seed of the same was also supplied by him to 

 Francis Brill, of Long Island, who named it and 

 sold it as Long Island Beauty. 



At the Xew York experimant station in 1888, the 

 Early Padilla equaled in earliness Henderson's 

 Snowball, and was slightly surpassed by Extra 



