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The coral-like substance is the only portion sold. The yield 
per acre of flowers for pickling varies from three to ten 
tons. A good average yield is about five tons per acre. Many 
growers of market cauliflower have an opportunity of selling their 
rice heads, extra large heads, or over-supply during years of 
heavy production, to the pickling stations; thus realizing more 
from their crop than they otherwise would. 
GROWING CAULIFLOWER UNDER GLASS 
Cauliflower ig grown under glass, particularly at Mattituck, 
Long Island, in the fall of the year. The plants are placed in the 
greenhouse early in the fall and given the same attention as that 
mentioned for outside with the exception that more care is exer- 
cised regarding the moisture conditions. The flowers are not 
allowed to produce as large heads as those grown outside. They 
should be produced about Christmas time and from then on until 
the first of February. At this time small heads are sold at from 
fifteen to twenty-five cents apiece. 
It is particularly valuable as a fall crop with greenhouse 
vegetable men who are growing cucumbers and tomatoes as a 
spring crop. The only competition of this crop at the particular 
time of year is from flowers grown in New Orleans and California. 
The time necessary to produce heads from seeds in the green- 
house varies from ninety to one hundred twenty days. A house 
50 feet wide and 320 feet long will accommodate about 2,700 
cauliflower plants. At the same time lettuce plants may be inter- 
planted and it will accommodate three times as many of these. 
From eighty-five to ninety per cent. of all the cauliflower plants 
should form heads under proper management. Some very high 
yields of flowers have been mentioned from various men engaged 
in this line of work. The first quality heads sell at from fifteen 
to twenty-five cents a head, the second quality at from ten to 
twenty cents and the third from five to fifteen cents. The fuel 
cost for growing the crop should not exceed $60 to $75; the 
care of the house should be about the same as for lettuce or other 
cool greenhouse crops; the cost of seed about $6 to $8; insurance 
$20; miscellaneous about $75 — total, $221 to $253. 
