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days and in another thirty- two days before the 

 Lenormand. — [The Garden, 1873, p. 2). 



Imperial Novelty (Landreth). see Imjoerial. 



Improved Early Paris, see Boston Market. 



Italian G-iant. — There are two or more forms of 

 this variety in the market. For example: Tick 

 sells "Italian Giant;'' Gregory, "Italian Early 

 Giant;" the Plant Seed Company, " Italian Early 

 Giant Autumnal;" Yilmorin, "Half-Early Italian 

 Giant (new);" Frotzer, "Late Italian Giant:" 

 and Yilmorin, "Late Giant Italian Self-protect- 

 ing." The early form or variety seems to be tlie 

 most generally sold by our seedsmen, and is per- 

 haps the one indicated when the simple name 

 Italian Giant is used. Gregory calls the Early 

 Italian Giant a "fine, large white-headed early 

 variety." Frotzer says it is not quite so late as 

 the Late Italian, almost as large, and in every way 

 satisfactory. The Late Italian Giant, he says, is 

 grown to a considerable extent in the neighborhood 

 of New Orleans, and is the largest of all the cauli- 

 flowers and should not be sown later than June, as 

 it requires from seven to nine months to head. 



Johnson & Stokes' Early Alabaster, sea Ala- 

 baster. 



King, see Sutton's King. 



K^'ICKERBOCKER. — An early variety with " line 

 large compact snow-white heads of excellent 



