THE LAKE REGION. 75 



The recent introduction of very early varities is 

 likely to have an important result in extending the 

 cultivation of the cauliflower, in the extreme North- 

 ern States and Canada, where the soil and climate 

 are in many places peculiarly adapted to it, but 

 where the seasons are so short that it has not here- 

 tofore been successfully grown. 



Around Chicago much of the soil is unsurpassed 

 for this vegetable, and large quantities of it are 

 grown, but not enough to supply its local demand. 



The most successful cultivators of this vegetable 

 near Chicago are the market gardeners in the 

 Holland settlement south of the city, and the Ger- 

 mans on the north. All are more successful with 

 the late crop than with the early. One of the most 

 successful of these growers sometimes sets his 

 plants as late as the first of August, using seed 

 direct from friends in Holland. 



In Mahoning County, Ohio, which may be included, 

 for convenience, in the Lake Region, Mr. Milton, 

 who makes a specialty of the cauliflower, states that 

 it is a good paying crop, but requires high cultiva- 

 tion, and if possible a moist soil. He states that 

 he has tried all the varieties in cultivation, and finds 

 a great difference in seed of the same variety from 

 different growers. For the early crop he one year 

 planted Henderson's Snowball, extra selected Early 

 Erfurt, and Vick's Ideal, and found, owing to a 



