84 THE CAULIFLOWER. 



popular, but the other varieties are just as -good. 

 For spring crop the Italian kinds do not answer, 

 but the Early French and German varieties can be 

 sown at the end of December and during January, 

 in a bed protected from frost, and may be trans- 

 planted into the open ground during February and 

 as late as March. If we have a favorable season, 

 and not too dry, they will be very fine ; but if the 

 heat sets in soon, the flowers will not attain the 

 same size as those obtained from seeds sown in 

 fall, and which head during December and Janu- 

 ary." 



In the Texas Farm and Ranch, H. M. String- 

 fellow, of Hitchcock, Galveston County, gives an 

 account of his success with American grown (Puget 

 Sound) seed of Henderson's Snowball cauliflower. 

 He says: 



" After two years careful trial, I have found this 

 seed every way superior to the original imported 

 stock, good as that was, for our hot climate. The 

 plants are much more robust, make equally as 

 compact but larger heads, and what is most re- 

 markable, they mature here fully two weeks or more 

 ahead of the imported seed. Nearly every plant 

 will make a marketable head, and they always sell 

 for fully double as much as cabbage. 



" These American seeds begin to head about the 

 first of November, and are nearly all gone by 



