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tain. Different varieties are adapted to each season. 

 While resistance to the effects of cold is the chief requisite 

 of the first, ability to withstand the heat is a necessity for 

 the spring crop. The "Algiers/' the variety grown so 

 extensively in the French African colony for the winter 

 supply of Europe (whence its name), is a good sort for 

 the winter crop. It makes an enormous plant, and forms 

 a large, massive, fine white head. The seed is sown, like 

 that of cabbages, from May to September; but, owing to 

 the greater susceptibility of cauliflower to heat, it is even 



Fig. 35. LENORMAND CAULIFLOWEK. 



more difficult to grow the plants. Another drawback in 

 this latitude is the liability to have the crop killed out 

 by freezing about the time it commences to mature. An 

 amount of cold several degrees above that injurious to 

 cabbage will kill cauliflower plants outright. 



The distance apart for the Algiers and other bulky va- 

 rieties is two by four feet. This va-riety is recommended 

 to Florida growers for a winter crop, to be marketed in 

 February, the seeds being sown early in September. For the 



