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future. The plants are set three feet apart each 

 way. This applies to Erfurt and Snowball ; Algiers 

 requires the rows four feet apart." 



The American Garden for 1889, page 59, says: 

 "Almost nine-tenths of all the cauliflowers that come 

 to the New York market are grown in Suffolk County 

 on Long Island, and this industry is said to bring 

 about $200,000 a year to the county. Success with 

 cauliflower culture has been very indifferent in 

 other parts of Long Island and elsewhere where 

 tried." 



A New Jersey market- gardener described his ex- 

 perience as follows a few years ago in the New York 

 Tribune: "Among the many uncertain crops, the 

 cauliflower stands prominent, for very often under 

 the best culture, it fails to produce a head on an 

 acre, although the usual outlay for preparing and 

 manuring the ground preparatory to planting will 

 be at least twice as much as for a crop of late cab- 

 bage. But when a full crop of cauliflower is raised, 

 the profits will average three times that of the 

 cabbage in the same market. This being the case, it 

 is not strange that every means known to the pro- 

 fession should be resorted to with the hope of get- 

 ting year after year maximum crops of this vege- 

 table. But, as yet, no plan has been discovered, 

 under our burning July and August sun, that will 

 make cauliflower head with certainty every season. 



