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THE CAULIFLOWER. 



VARIETY TESTS. 



New York Experiment Station (G-'e?? era). — In 

 1883 the following twenty-two varieties were 

 sown April 16, and eleven plants of each variety 

 set out May 15. One variety, however, Rice's 

 Giant Snowball, was sown May 13, and set out 

 June 20. Treatment was the same as for cabbage. 



Variety. 





m 



a 

 a 



"o 

 6 



Z, 'M O 

 S ® fl 



Algiers 



Algerian Late 



Berlin Dwarf 



Carter's Defiance 



Carter's Dwarf Mammoth. . . 



Earliest Dwarf Erfurt 



Erfurt Earlv Dwarf 



Early Dutch 



Early London 



Extra Early Paris 



Gerry Island 



Imperial 



Italian Giant White 



Large Late London 



Large White French 



Lenormand's Short-Stemm'd 



Rice's Giant Snowball 



Snowball 



Stadtholder 



Thorburn's Wonderful 



Veitch's Autumn Giant 



Walcheren 



159 

 U2 

 12tt 

 124 

 12tt 

 124 

 131 

 142 

 129 

 142 

 133 

 119 

 175 

 128 

 105 

 128 

 152 

 128 

 128 

 128 

 128 

 128 



9 

 8 

 7 

 6 

 10 

 6 

 7 

 6 

 3 

 3 



9 

 6 

 5 



9 

 7 

 5 

 6 

 9 

 9 

 6 

 10 

 10 

 7 

 6 

 8 

 4 

 6 

 9 

 6 

 6 

 6 



