GLOSSARY. 



BLIND. To " go blind " is to lose the centre or 

 growing point, and fail to head. It is generally 

 due to climatic or insect injury. It is said to be 

 frequently caused in the cauliflower by an insect 

 resembling the turnip fly. Soot and lime are 

 remedies. 



BLUES. A dark- bluish appearance, accompany- 

 ing arrested development, generally due to unfavor- 

 able weather, unsuitable soil or insects at the root. 

 Cabbage and cauliflower plants which are set too 

 early in the spring, especially if they are not well 

 hardened off and are placed in a cold soil, are apt 

 to assume this appearance. If cauliflowers remain 

 long in this condition, they are liable either to fail 

 to head, or to form small heads prematurely. 



BOLT. A familiar term in England, applied to 

 wheat when it heads out small and prematurely. 

 Sometimes applied to cauliflowers when they head 

 before they attain a proper age and size. See 

 Button. 



BREAK. To become loose or " frothy " prepara- 

 tory to running up to seed. Said of a head of 

 cauliflower; also of other plants as they begin to 

 throw up their seed stalks. 



