72 FARM-GARDENING AND SEED-GROWING. 



and for this purpose usually in fair demand, and prime 

 heads always command good prices. 



Turnip-rooted or Kohl-RaM, This is intermediate 

 between the cabbage and turnip, and though classed with 

 the former has more the appearance of the latter. The 

 stalk just above the ground swells out, forming a round 

 fleshy bulb, from which the leaves start separately, and 

 the whole has much the appearance of a Ruta-Baga turnip. 

 It can be sown in cold-frames as soon as the cabbage 

 plants are removed, and transplanted to the open ground 

 when large enough to handle, about eighteen inches apart 

 each way. For late crop they are sown in June, and 

 transplanted as above, or may be sown in rows and 

 thinned out, which is preferable to transplanting in hot 

 weather. In either case they require rich soil, and to be 

 well worked. In marketing, the root and superfluous 

 leaves are cut away, and three or four bulbs tied in a flat 

 bunch. 



The seed is obtained by preserving the bulbs and roots 

 over winter in a cellar or pit, and transplanting in the 

 spring, cultivating the same as directed for Ruta-Baga. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



Where this vegetable does well, there is certainly no 

 crop which will pay a larger profit. For the past two 

 years the farmers of the east end of Long Island, espe- 

 cially about the village of Mattituck, have planted largely 

 of cauliflower, being incited by the successful experiments 

 of some who have removed here from the west end, who 

 were formerly engaged in growing vegetables for New 

 York markets. The past season the crop has succeeded 

 admirably, and large profits have been realized by growers 

 in this vicinity, and this by men many of whom are inex- 

 perienced in the cultivation of this or any other vegetable 

 for market, and moreover the most of it was grown at the 



