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How THE FARM PAYS. 



always more certain to form heads. It is not once in twenty years 

 that a variety of vegetables or fruit makes such an advance in earliness 

 and quality as this " Snowball " cauliflower, and we have much satis- 

 faction in the knowledge that we were the first to bring it into cultiva- 

 tion, about five years ago. It is now grown to almost the entire 

 exclusion of all other early kinds of cauliflower in this country, and 

 hundreds have succeeded both North and South in raising a crop 

 from this variety, who had previously completely failed with all other 

 kinds. In cauliflowers, as in cabbages, it is folly to attempt the experi- 

 ment of many kinds. Long experience has taught us that two or 

 three of each, for early and second early, is all-sufficient. Although 

 our seed catalogues enumerate scores of kinds, gardeners, who know 

 what they are about, fight shy of all except those whose merit has 

 been proved beyond any question of a doubt. For this reason, we 

 only give the names of such as we know to be the best. 



CARROT. 



The cultivation of this vegetable is almost identical with that given 

 for the beet, excepting that the crop may be thinned out a little closer; 



DANVEBS CABBOT. 



EARLY SCARLET SHORT HOBN CABROT. 



that is, carrots may be allowed to stand at a distance of three or four 

 inches apart, while the beet requires five or six inches. This is a 

 particularly safe crop for the farmer, and he can never go far wrong 



