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temperature, and are ready for cutting by the time 

 the cauliflower requires the room they occupy. 



The soil on the benches is about six inches in 

 depth. A lively loam made rich with well-rotted 

 manure is best suited, and, with a temperature of 

 sixty degrees by "day and forty-five degrees by night, 

 the growth is rapid and healthful. An application 

 of nitrate of soda in solution, at the rate of two 

 hundred pounds per acre, when the plants are first 

 set, is particularly advantageous. 



VARIETIES. 



There is but one type of cauliflower adapted to 

 the Atlantic coast, namely the Erfurt, of which there 

 are both early and late varieties. ( Fig. 9. ) These are 

 sent out under a score of names, but they are Erfurt, 

 for all that. What is a strange peculiarity with this 

 vegetable is, that the seed best adapted to our country 

 does not come from the place from whence it derives 

 its name. So many are interested in this crop, and 

 have so little knowledge of the seed, we reproduce an 

 article we furnished the Florists' Exchange, and 

 which will show very plainly why good cauliflower 

 seed must of necessity be sold at a high price. 



CAULIFLOWER SEED. 



There is no seed coming into our country that 

 is in such common use, and about which there is so 

 little known, as that of the cauliflower. Where and 

 how grown is a mystery that but few of the seedsmen 

 who handle it care to inquire into. The most com- 

 mon variety, the Early Dwarf Erfurt, which has 



