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plants an inch apart each way, water thoroughly as 

 soon as each box is filled, and let them grow on until 

 the proper time for setting in the field. This will se- 

 cure almost absolute success. The plants .will have 

 formed a solid mass of roots, and, with but little care 

 in transplanting the plants will not receive the slight- 

 est check in growth, which is so essential to success. 



CAULIFLOWER AS AN EARLY SUMMER CROP. 



It has generally been supposed that, in our cli- 

 mate, cauliflower cannot be made a summer crop, 

 than which there can be no greater mistake. It can 

 be, and is made a most profitable summer crop, every 

 year by a farmer near Jamaica, L. I. This person 

 grows sixty acres annually, and from plants pro- 

 duced in the manner described on Page 30. His 

 plants are grown under glass and are ready for the 

 field as soon in the spring as the soil can be brought 

 in proper condition to receive them. When his 

 plants are set a handful of shell lime is scattered 

 closely around each. This he considers a guarantee 

 against club-root and stem-rot, from the fact that 

 he is never troubled with either. 



The crop from his sixty acres is all harvested in 

 July in time for some other crop which is sure to 

 follow for autumn market. But for the ravages of 

 the cabbage worm he would have an equal acreage 

 for cutting in August and September. 



CAULIFLOWER GROWN UNDER GLASS. 



This, when thoroughly understood, is an inter- 

 esting and profitable branch of market gardening. 

 The person referred to above is also a most success- 



