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through a fine grater, either in their raw state or stewed, and 

 then be used precisely as veritable pumpkin. 



CAULIFLOWER. 

 French, Chou-fleur. — German, Blmnenkohl. — Spanish, CoUflor. 



EARLY, LATE, ETC. 



BRIEF DIEECTIONS. 



Set the plants twenty inches apart, in rows two feet wide, 

 in very rich soil, and hoe often. 



Time : for spring and summer heading, sow in September ; 

 pot and protect the plants carefully through winter, and sot 

 out in April or May at the North ; but at the South sow a 

 month or more later, and either pot and protect them thus, or 

 set out the plants, when four or six inches high, where they 

 are to stand through winter, and protect them if necessary. 



For the fall crop at New York and the North generally, sow 

 in the fii-st half of May, and set out last of June or first week 

 of July. Proceeding southward, sow and transplant still later, 

 allowing the crop full sixteen weeks from the setting out, with 

 good culture, to mature for use before winter. 



The cauliflower, like the brocoli, is of the cabbage tribe,^ 

 having long, narrowish leaves, which grow upon the stem 

 rather in the fashion of a tuft, somewhat as the palm-tree 

 bears its leaves ; and, instead of having a head like the cab- 

 bage, formed of the young leaves compacted by the closing of 

 those above and the growth of those within, it is composed of 

 the incipient blossom-head, which, appearing at first as a mere 

 Ijutton in the centre of the crown of leaves, gradually enlarges 

 to a diameter of from six to twelve inches or more. When in 

 joerfection it has the appearance of a compact curd-white 

 mass of an irregular convex form, and is the most choice and 

 delicate of ffai-den vegetables. 



The early cauliflower is on many accounts preferable to the 

 other varieties, and perhaps is the only one that will prove to 

 be really worth raising. Between the early and late varieties 

 of cabbages, peas, etc., their time of maturing affimls a pretty 



