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THE CAULIFLOWER. 



head forms very late, and is fine, large, and very 

 white, of fine close grain. The seed requires to be 

 sown at AValcheren, [an island on the coast of Hol- 

 land] in April, in order to be certain of heading 

 before frost. If sown later it often i^asses the 

 winter and heads early in the spring." 



Sibley, in 1887, sold this variety under the name 

 of Early Walcheren, though giving it the usual 

 characters and season of the ordinary late sort. 

 Buist, in 1890, mentions it as a favorite, very hardy, 

 late variety. It is sold by most of our seedsmen, 

 but is less popular in this country than in England. 

 Sutton, the English seedsman, describes it in his 

 latest catalogue as an " excellent mid-season cauli- 

 flower." It is less liable to button in dry weather 

 than most other varities, but sometimes forms im- 

 perfect heads. 



Webb's Early Mammoth. — A variety advertised 

 as follows by Webb & Sons of Wordsley, Stour- 

 bridge, England, in The Garden, Feb. 9, 1878: 

 "An excellent compact variety; stands the drought 

 remarkably well ; heads large, firm, and beautifully 

 white. The best of all for the main crop." 



Wellington. — Introduced about 1860. Hender- 

 son & Co. describe it as the finest kind in 

 cultivation; pure white; size of head over two feet 

 in circumference, and as large as thirteen inches 

 diameter; very dwarf, the stem not more than two 

 or three inches from the soil, but with ample 



