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MICHIGAN EXPEKIMENT STATION (Lansing). The 

 Michigan experiment station is connected with the 

 Agricultural College, located at Lansing, at the 

 geographical centre of the Lower Peninsula. It 

 is, therefore, remote from any large body of water, 

 and although the soil in that portion of the state is 

 mainly a strong loam suitable for cauliflower, it is 

 only in favorable seasons that good cauliflowers can 

 be obtained. 



In the exceptionally favorable season of 1889, 

 some of the sorts then prominently before the pub- 

 lic, were grown at the college, all of which gave 

 very good results, with the exception of Autumn 

 Giant, which failed to germinate. The American 

 grown seeds, from H. A. March, of Fidalgo, Wash- 

 ington, were large and plump and gave strong vig- 

 orous plants, and as good or better results than is 

 usually obtained from imported seed. The follow- 

 ing varieties were sown March 13, and set out May 

 14. It was difficult to detect any difference be- 

 tween Puritan, Gilt Edge, Denmark, Prize Earliest, 

 Best Early, Snowball, and Erfurt, as they showed 

 less variation than appeared between the same sorts 

 from different seedsmen. 



The title "edible maturity" in the table refers to 

 the period at which the heads might be cut for 

 one's own use, that is when they had attained the 

 size of one's two fists. "Marketable maturity" is 

 when they had completed their growth and would, 

 remain solid no longer. 

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