110 A HOME VEGETABLE-GARDEN 



the best seed. No other vegetable seems to run 

 down so quickly from poor seed. Too much em- 

 phasis, therefore, cannot be placed on buying the 

 very best. That means, again, reliance on our 

 seedsman, for it certainly does not pay to try to 

 produce our own cauliflower seeds, unless as a bit 

 of an adventure to see what happens. The best 

 seed has for many years been obtained from Den- 

 mark, although much excellent seed is being pro- 

 duced now by Puget Sound growers. Dwarf 

 Erfurt and Snowball may be chosen as the finest 

 for early varieties, Snowball being somewhat 

 earlier. Broccoli is merely a hardy late-maturing 

 sort of cauliflower. For a late variety, Sea Foam 

 is suggested. The plants may be grown in the 

 latter part of the season; but it is best to start 

 them as early as possible in the spring, while the 

 weather is cool and moist and the sunshine not 

 yet hot 



Good heads may be grown in a great variety of 

 gardens. Let us try our first cauliflower as an 

 early crop, getting them in as far as possible ahead 

 of the dry weather. Grown as a first crop, they 

 have full use of the early supply of moisture so 

 thoroughly distributed in the soil; they have the 

 abundant food supply made ready during the fal- 

 low winter months ; and, during these early spring 

 weeks, the soil is cool. The atmosphere is more 

 humid then. Therefore, as amateurs in growing 

 this uncertain crop, our best chances for success 



