144 THE CAULIFLOWER. 



tall, but shorter than that of Early Dutch; head 

 well formed and somewhat conical. Formerly the 

 main variety grown as an early crop about London, 

 but there are now varieties much earlier. 



Vilmorin regards it as the same as Early Dutch, 

 which is evidently an error. 



EARLY LONDON MARKET (Gregory), see Early 

 London. 



EARLY LONDON WHITE (Sutton). An early form 

 of Early London, cultivated some twenty years ago, 

 but now seldom heard of. 



EARLY PADILLA (Long Island Beauty). The Early 

 Padilla was named and sent out by Tillinghast in 

 1888, who says that it is a sport from Henderson's 

 Snowball which originated on one of his seed farms 

 on Padilla Bay, Puget Sound, in the State of Wash- 

 ington. Mr. H. A. March, of Fidalgo, Washington, 

 who states that he grows all of Tillinghast's Puget 

 Sound cauliflower seed, says that Early Padilla 

 originated with him from the Large Erfurt, and 

 was named by him the American, and so published 

 at first in one of his circulars. Seed of the same 

 was also supplied by him to Francis Brill, of Long 

 Island, who named it and sold it as Long Island 

 Beauty^ 



At the New York experiment station in 1888, the 

 Early Padilla equalled in earliness Henderson's 

 Snowball, and was slightly surpassed by Extra 



