COLE 
129 CROPS 
greater care is necessary in choosing only the 
best for seed. It is subject to the same diseases 
as other cole crops. 
CAULIFLOWER. 
The cauliflower is more particular than 
cabbage, both as to climate and cultivation. 
It won’t head up in the heat and must have a 
cool, moist climate to reach perfection. It 
also needs a constant water-supply and there- 
fore demands the best of tillage. It will grow 
only from the best of seed, and as it is easily 
sunburned, it is grown chiefly for early and late 
crops. For early crops the seeds are sown in 
hot-beds or forcing houses, and transplanted as 
soon as the weather is settled, so that the crop 
is off in late June or early July. The best 
.varieties for this early cropping are the Snowball 
and Paris, variations of the Early Dwarf Erfurt. 
The fall crop is started in seed-beds in the sum- 
mer and transplanted to the garden. For this 
crop some of the larger and later growing vari- 
eties may be planted. 
Cauliflower is grown to best advantage along 
the northern sea-coast States, Long Island, the 
shores of the Great Lakes, and in the Puget 
Sound region, and wherever irrigation is prac- 
ticed. Where the climate is at all inclined to 
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