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are usually stored in the fall for winter marketing. 

 They are one of the various forms of the cabbage 

 family and require similar general treatment. 



In the ordinary cabbage, which is a biennial 

 plant, the rounded, thick, fleshy, strongly veined 

 leaves afford the edible portion; being collected 

 into a head the first year, at the summit of a short 

 and stout stem. In cauliflower, and similarly in 

 Broccoli, the nutritive matter mainly concentrates 

 in short, imperfect flower-branches collected into 

 a flattish head. 



It is naturally a fall crop, and will not well bear 

 early forcing, although the heads are now grown 

 to some extent in hot-houses, out of season, thus 

 commanding high prices. They are more or less 

 subject to club-root; as to the cause and remedy 

 for which there is not yet much satisfactory infor- 

 mation; and there are other limitations to their 

 profitable culture which gardeners have not yet 

 perfectly learned. 



In out-door culture, when they do well they 

 will usually pay better than early cabbage; but 

 there is much more risk in cultivating them. As 

 raised in this locality, about six thousand are 

 grown per acre, and if maturing well will bring in 



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