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the opinion, however, that the " Snowball," of which 

 twice the number can be grown per acre, will prove a 

 more profitable crop even for late, than the " Algiers," as 

 it is assuredly 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 cultivation 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 experiment 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. 



As yet nearly all Cauliflower seed is imported, as we 

 have not yet been successful in raising it here so as to 

 give satisfactory results, our climate seeming to be un- 

 suited for the growth of the seed. .But Cabbage seed is 

 almost exclusively grown here. Though the imported 

 seed costs less than half the price, we rarely have found 

 it safe enough to risk it for market garden crops ; the 

 American grown Cabbage seeds should be exclusively 

 used. 



