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in barrels, March 25th, containing forty-two No. 1, and 

 forty-seven No. 2, netted twenty-four dollars and seventy- 

 five cents per barrel. 



The average gross cales per head of No. 1, in New 

 York, were at thirty-seven and nine-tenths cents. The 

 average gross sales per head of No. 1, in Boston, were at 

 thirty-seven and five-tenths cents. The sales by another 

 firm were not quite so satisfactory. 



"What number of plants to the acre, under favorable 

 conditions, he may be able to nurse up to the production 

 of marketable heads, will, of course, depend upon the 

 gardener himself. 



The Cauliflower is considered the queen among vege- 

 tables, and the supply has never been equal to the de- 

 mand, though there are hundreds of acres devoted to it 

 on Long Island, for the New York market. As seen 

 from the prices quoted above, this vegetable is only within 

 the command of persons of means. Fortunately for 

 the market gardener, there are many who think as did 

 Dr. Johnson: " Of all the flowers of the garden give me 

 the cauliflower." 



Besides large quantities used for pickling, etc., there 

 were marketed from Long Island, in 1879, one hundred 

 thousand pounds of cauliflower. 



LOCATION AND SOIL. 



The cauliflower can never become a vegetable of uni- 

 versal cultivation, for the reason, that it will not succeed 

 if far removed from the moisture and the saline atmos- 

 phere of its native locality, the sea coast, unless, in- 

 deed, the required moisture can be supplied by irriga- 

 tion. Erfurt, in the interior of Germany, produces per- 

 haps the finest cauliflowers of the European Continent. 

 They are grown between open ditches, or small canals, 

 on ' ' lands " so narrow as to admit of water being thrown 

 by hand from each marginal ditch to the middle of each 



