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variety. Heads have been grown weighing 28 

 pounds. 



BUTTON'S MAGNUM BONIIM. Sutton in 1888 says: 

 "We introduced this cauliflower to our customers 

 last year as the finest and most delicately flavored 

 variety we have grown." Heads large, firm, snowy 

 white; plant medium early, of strong, dwarf, habit 

 and broad leaves, which "are serviceable for shading 

 the heads." 



BUTTON'S SNOWBALL. A very early dwarf variety 

 mentioned in the Garden in 1875. 



TAEANTO. Offered as new by J. M. Thorburn, in 

 1891, and said to be very large and to resemble 

 Autumn Giant. 



THORBURN'S EARLY SNOWBALL (Thorburn, 1890). 

 No description. 



THORBURN'S GILT EDGE. Gregory says in 1890: 

 "This is undoubtedly the finest strain of the Snow- 

 ball variety. It is a little later and larger than the 

 common Snowball, and can be left longer in the 

 field without decaying. I considered it the best of 

 all the dozen varieties raised in my experimental 

 grounds this season." 



THORBURN'S NONPAREIL, see Nonpareil. 



THORBURN'S WONDFRFUL. At the New York ex- 

 periment station in 1883 this variety matured with 

 Yeitch's Autumn Giant and Walcheren, and was 

 larger than either of those. At the same station in 



