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THE CAULIFLOWER. 



EARLY PURITAN. A little the earliest of four 

 varieties at the New York experiment station in 

 1889, the others being Early Erfurt, Snowball, and 

 Vick's Ideal. At the Ohio station the same year it 

 was considered to be a strain of Early [Extra 

 Early] Erfurt and one of the best of its class. 



D. M. Ferry & Co., the introducers of this 

 variety, write me as follows regarding its history: 

 "The Puritan cauliflower originated as the product 

 of a particularly early, large-headed, and dwarf- 

 growing plant found in a large crop of Snowball 

 during the summer of 1886. The seed from this 

 plant was saved, and selections made from the 

 product until a sufficient quantity was secured. It 

 was first noticed and selected by one of the largest 

 cauliflower growers in this country, and great care 

 was taken in selecting and seeding the plant. It 

 is purely American, both in origin and growth." 



It appears from the letter of H. A. March, on 

 another page, that this variety originated with him 

 from Henderson's Snowball, at Fidalgo, Washington. 



EARLY SNOWBALL. Under this name Dean's 

 Early Snowball is generally known in England, and 

 it is probably the variety often sold as Snowball 

 in this country. Henderson's Early Snowball is, 

 however, now sold under that name by many seeds- 

 men, and is the one sent out as Early Snowball 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture- 



