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which the head is flattened sidewise, like the garden 

 cockscomb. These forms have not been cultivated. 



Cauliflower seed contains on an average about 

 7,000 seeds to the ounce, of which about one-half 

 usually germinate, a much smaller per cent, than 

 in cabbage. Long Island growers estimate two 

 ounces of seed to the acre as a safe amount for the 

 small varieties and an ounce and a half for the late 

 varieties. 



It was formerly a common belief, especially in 

 England, that old seed would be most likely to 

 produce good heads. There is little evidence to 

 support this belief, and just as little ground for the 

 more recent belief held by some that old seed is 

 particularly liable to produce loose worthless heads. 

 Like all other seed cauliflower seed ought to be as 

 fresh as possible; fresh seed always germinates 

 best and gives the most vigorous plants. Seed two 

 or three years old, however, is generally satisfac- 

 tory, and it will often grow successfully at double 

 that age. 



" CAULIFLOWEK SEED GBOWING ON PUGET SOUND." 



By H. A. March, Fidalgo Island, Puget Sound,. 

 Washington, in Rural New Yorker, 1888. 



"I am told by very good authority that cauli- 

 flower seeds had never been grown in the United 

 States as a field crop to any extent until we made 

 a success of it here on Puget Sound. In the first 



