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Paris. Algiers has been recommended. Large Asiatic 

 is grown in India. The price of the seed is one drawback 

 in cauliflower raising. 



Enemies. 



The root-maggot is one of the worst insect enemies of 

 cauliflower. It can be kept away by covering the seed- 

 bed with cheap mosquito-bar, and hellebore solution or 

 carbon bisulfide will drive it from mature plants. 



The black-rot, caused by bacteria, is a dreaded disease 

 in the southern United States. When a field is once in- 

 fected, neither cabbage nor cauliflower can be grown on 

 it for some years. The best way to prevent infection of 

 a healthy district is to soak all the seed in a solution 

 of 2 ounces of corrosive sublimate to 15 gallons of water, 

 for a quarter of an hour. 



Books and bulletins. 



Cauliflower, Fla. Bulletin 59, 1901. 



Cabbages and Cauliflowers, by J. J. H. Gregory, Boston, 1908. 



BROCCOLI 



Broccoli is a late and coarse form of cauliflower. It is 

 hardier than cauliflower and keeps well, but is not so 

 choice a vegetable, and therefore does not sell as well. 

 It may be grown as a winter crop in some regions where the 

 cauliflower cannot stand the frosts without protection. 

 Thus it is a favorite crop in southern England. Some of 

 the varieties are often confused with cauliflower in new 

 markets. 



